Standardized Testing: Is it Truly Beneficial to Children? In 2000‚ the United States’ ranked 18th in the world for math scores. In 2009‚ seven years after the No Child Left Behind Act‚ the United States ranked 31st. This statistic alone should be reason enough to discard standardized testing in the education system. Since standardized testing has been required‚ not only has the US ranking in education gone down‚ but also the value of education has gone down. By allowing these tests‚ students
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Is standardized testing the way to go? You wake up in the morning belated for the bus because of sleeping late. You arrive in school‚ forgetting to brush your teeth and comb your hair. When you are confronted with the test‚ you are so tired and you get a pink eye. The next event you know is that you fail the test. Do you want to fail for just having an inadequate day? Standardized testing may cause you to stay in the same grade just for having an inadequate day‚ not getting enough sleep‚ etc
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English I CPE/period 9 15 January 2013 Standardized testing should not be required to graduate high school Sitting in a classroom for forty-five minutes feels long and stressful. During the standardized tests students have to sit in a classroom for hours at a time‚ knowing that their future dreams of being a doctor‚ teacher‚ or lawyer could come to an end if they mess up one exam. Standardized tests should not be required for students to graduate high school. They cause students
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Lainey Sullivan Evaluation Paper Standardized Testing Standardized tests are a common and popular way to evaluate the academic achievements of students‚ teachers and school districts. They are used in many areas such as the army‚ civil service‚ medicine and so on. Standardized tests are most widely used in the field of education to assess the academic performance of students. Two commonly known types of standardized tests in the United States are the SAT and the ACT. The SAT evaluates skills
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Standardized Testing Robert L. White Advanced Writing Bill Bohnert February 2‚ 2006 In years past thousands of grade school students have been drug throughout the school systems of the United States without a single thought to whether they acquired the knowledge necessary to be successful in the working world or college. Since the signing of No Child Left Behind Act by President George W. Bush‚ many believe standardized or "high stakes" testing places advantages and disadvantages
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Thesis statement: Standardized tests in the public school system have become biased and they are becoming costly to the school systems. Introduction: According to Dr. Hoffman‚ it is the multiple-choice format that is to blame. “Multiple choice tests penalize the deep student‚ dampen creativity‚ foster intellectual dishonesty‚ and undermine the very foundations of education” he remarked in a 1977 interview. A standardized test is a test that uses uniform procedures for administration and scoring
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Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how students compare with each other or how much of a particular curriculum they have learned. Increasingly‚ standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students‚ such as grade promotion or high school graduation‚ and schools. More and more often‚ they also are intended to shape the curriculum and instruction. Students across America have had to repeat classes because of the way standardized tests are used
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sorts of tests have been evolving ever since. One of the important questions that always comes up regarding these tools is what are the tests really measuring? Are they measuring a person’s intelligence? Their ability to perform well on standardized tests? Or just some arbitrary quantity of the person’s IQ? When examining the situations around which these tests are given and the content of the tests themselves‚ it becomes apparent that however useful the tests may be for standardizing
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The morning sunlight shining partially through the window onto a student who is waiting to begin his standardized exam. The student glancing through the window‚ looking at man running down the street trying to make it on time to work. The man has lingering thoughts on his mind about a project deadline that he should have been more organized with. The man running around the corner past a older women talking on the phone‚ a conversation that the man could not interpret. This older woman who recently
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Is standardized testing improving our students’ academic achievement level? Or is it causing several high schools around the world to have a lower graduation rate? I personally feel that there should be no standardized test that determines if students graduate and receive their diploma. Causing stress on our teachers‚ lowering graduation rates‚ and putting at risk students at a higher risk is three of several reasons why standardized testing should no longer be permitted in our schools. All teachers
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