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    wisdom has it that standardized tests don’t efficiently measure a student’s intellectual knowledge while others believe there is no other fair way to improve America’s education system as a whole. According to ProCon.org, the use of standardized testing has been around since the mid-1800s in the American education system. The way a state standardized test works is by having individuals test every year on a selected curriculum for each grade. The main intention for such a test is to record…

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    As one walks down the hallways of any school, he/she would expect to see many different kinds of people: the football players, the people finishing their homework frantically before the bell tone, and the people sitting on their phones, not even talking to their friends sitting next to them. What many people pass by without noticing is the group of students in choir and band warming up their instruments and voices, and lastly the people in drama class acting out scenes from their favorite plays…

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    College admittance standardized test have always been used as indicators of ability and achievement. For many college undergraduate and graduate students the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) are two of the most commonly used for admission, hence, they do not necessarily indicate how well a student will perform academically. Most admissions department are using the SAT & GRE test scores in addition to Grade Point Average (GPA) and extra-curricular,…

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    take a test to see if you would be accepted into that college but turns you didn’t get accepted because you didn’t do good on that test? Standardized testings in college can be really difficult. Some people can have different educational levels and not know a majority of questions that can be on these state tests. Standardized testings should not predict students success at college.Standardized testings should not be used as part of the admission process because a majority of people are bad…

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    taking the standardized tests. From there, the tests get more complex and add more fields. As students, we are being forced to be in common core classes that supposedly help with these exams. However, they seem to be a waste of our time and the time of our teachers as test scores begin to decrease year after year. Although they claim that standardized testing is helping students, they in end waste time, cause stress and are useless to many potential jobs. Standardized tests have been in…

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    By doing the pre-employment drug tests, the organization not only creates an inoffensive and drug-free workstation but also reduce the probabilities of handling any future-skirmishes which can take place due to the misconduct of drug- abuser employees. A pre-employment drug test is proved helpful to boost the repute of an organization. The drug abusers usually stay away from applying in any firm that held a drug test at the time of employment. Pre-employment testing is a wonderful…

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    Subtitle Standardized tests have been around for several years. While other countries do have their own forms of these tests, they are most common in the United States. These tests came around to be used as a form of an accountability system not only for the teachers and students but as the schools as well. The United States has lacked in the area of education for many years and have not raised their ranking. To try to alleviate this situation, standardized testing has become a common mandate…

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    The PSSA stands for Pennsylvania System of School Assessment. The author is DRC or Data Recognition Corporation. The PSSA Testing started in the year of 1998. They started way back because it was an easier way for them to see how you were doing in school and shows teachers what they need to focus on teaching more of. Posters are a positive way to encourage PSSA testing. For example the color red makes you wanna learn and makes your brain think more. Bandwagon is one technique that can be used to…

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    have to take standardized test? “If the purpose for learning is to score well on a test, we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning” Said Jeannie Fulbright. Students should not have to take standardized test. Standardised test put too much stress on the students, we could be learning more and they say that it cost way too much. First, do the test put too much stress on the students? Students test almost for four weeks. We get tired of doing all of these test. Some people would say…

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    do in standardized tests is not a really good job because i always get nervous and I tend to forget lots of things that i know. It's just like if you were to say something in your head and you want to share it then you get called on out but then you forget what you were about to say and it's like i just had it . I consider myself in the middle because I do not go very well but i also don't fail the Standardized Test. Why i think i am in the middle is because i know that this test is supposedly…

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