Achievement test

Does Not Accurately Represent Educational Quality Standardized tests are tests that are administered by the state and are graded in a consistent or “standard” manner. They are administered in hopes to measure a student's aptitude by assessing how well a student understands a collection of curriculum that the government deems is necessary for all high school students to understand. These tests are administered all across America. Tests such as the ACT and SAT are highly considered by colleges…

Policy 19.2 (2005): 331-348. Academic Search Complete. Web.7 Oct. 2015. Summary & Evaluation: The SAT and ACT has become important measurements of students’ academic well-beings, and about 64% of the public universities has rated these standardised test scores as “very important” admissions criteria, because they believe that SAT and ACT are “objective” measures rather than “subjective” measures of student’s well-being in their first year of college. Critics on SAT generally focus on the bias…

dreams and be self reliant, all too often, this is the outlook of public officials on the education of racial and ethnic minority students. The achievement gap is defined as the divergence in performance between groups of students that are different in aspects such as race, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity (Teale 344). Many will argue that the achievement gap…

this study is the rationale for using out-of-level testing. There are three main themes to this sections. The first is, overly difficult tests promote increased guessing and student frustration, which reduced the accuracy of the test results. The basic question is whether students who score low on grade level tests would score higher on lower level of the same test. To answer this question much of the research on out-of-level testing has examined the effects on raw scored and derived scores.…

There has been a major controversy about the relationship between standardized test scores and the availability of school funding. This heated debate has affected teachers, parents, students, and Congressman across the United States. With the new standardized test being placed in Oregon, called the Smarter Balanced test, this argument has been renewed close to home. In the past, the school’s standardized test scores reflected on how much funding money was given to them. However, some deem this…

the tests. In order to be sure that this happens, teachers will teach to the tests. They will focus not on creative writing, but rather on the type of writing that the test scorers will want to see. Instead of taking field trips, students will be practicing analogies and test taking skills. Literature will not be read intensively, but will instead be skimmed for the main points in order to answer the critical reading questions. If the goal of school is truly education, standardized tests…

1 In this new age, students’ performing at proficient or above on standardized test predicts the likelihood of success in school. Standardized tests are academically appropriately for a student’s grade level but not necessary within the means of the student capability (e.g., ESL, special services, autism). With “No Child Left Behind” being the blueprint of teaching all children equally, the disadvantaged and disabled students struggle with understanding the challenging curricula. The…

other hand, I’m not sure if homework is completely unnecessary. I agree that that homework isn’t as vital as it’s thought to be, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people still believe that “If our students don't do lots of homework, their test scores will never be competitive internationally” (Kralovec, Buell). The essay states that “...the 1995 Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS) found that 8th graders in Japan and Germany are assigned less homework but still…

measurements of the achievement of studies by students. For example, just because a student does well on their homework and in class studies does not mean that the student will do well on standardized testing. In class participation, class quizzes and class activities can help the student to achieve a higher grade. This is an example of passing rates. Moreover, a student is not evaluated on those same achievements, rather the student is evaluated on just the standardized test scores. This is an…

and politicians to measure achievements in order to compare children, programs, school districts, and countries. One of the main concerns with assessments is the idea that the presser of accountability is creating an educational culture that puts test scores ahead of intellectual growth. You can even see it here in Philly with the implication of the keystone test, soon after you saw parents and teachers advocating against them. Many fear that with a pressers of test like these teachers are…