Criterion-referenced test

primarily standardized tests are associated with academic performance. Many discussions throughout the academic history since the beginning of standardized testing in favor of these tests can be noted, as well as, a number against since this method of monitoring and evaluating academic production has both produced benefits and setbacks. Standardized tests are viewed as an efficient and popular way to evaluate the academic achievements of students, and teachers. Standardized tests are…

W. James Popham, “former president of the American Educational Research Association” (ProCon.org), defines standardized tests as “any test that's administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner” (qtd. in ProCon.org). “Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) mandated annual testing in all 50 states” (ProCon.org). Standardized testing should be discarded. Alfie…

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. Many have turned to chance score as a criterion measure of reliability. When the effects of…

High Stake Testing test with important consequences for the test taker. Important benefits, high school diploma, scholarship, license to practice profession. failing is a disadvantage being forced to take the remedial classes until it's passed. not being allowed to drive or being able for employment. The misuse or high stake test is a controversial topic in public education in the united states where they become popular in recent years, not only to students but it attempts to increase teacher…

understanding, determine present levels, measure growth or mastery, and guide and plan instruction according to students’ results. However, there are disadvantages to using assessments, such as, anxiety for students, teachers only teaching to the test, and time consuming. One of the disadvantages to testing is the anxiety and stress it causes for students and teachers. Summative assessments, benchmark assessments, and standardized assessments can cause a tremendous amount of stress and…

Standardized tests: SAT, ACT, PSAT, ITBS, and Accuplacer. These tests, plus many more, are required to be taken in high score if higher education is wanted. Most people who take these tests do not find them adequate, but rather disappointing. The students born from 2000 on are not attempting to try as hard in school as those who came before them. As these students try less and less each year, the passing rate for standardized tests lower too. From 2000 to 2009, the United States’ students…

The education system today has the whole pedagogical process down to a science. Take a certain percentage of the student’s multiple choice score and then multiply the free response score by a seemingly random string of digits, then consider the weighted average, so and so forth. Then after crunching the numbers out comes the perfect student: One who can write the proper essay, the correct lab report, correctly perform an experiment, correctly, proper, right. But the system rarely stops to…

was a lack of a standard curriculum in boarding schools in New England. The tests are designed to evaluate a student’s knowledge and readiness to attend college by testing in subjects like math, reading, and science. The test seemed to “provide an objective way of measuring the potential of students from high schools of wide-ranging quality.” (Should Standardized Tests […]) Many changes have been made to standardized tests over the years and they are still being used in the United States to this…

is it allows some students to be set apart from others these students do well on multiple choice questions, meaning that those students can see the multiple choice questions and when they see the correct answer it jogs their memory to the question. Test like the SAT and ACT help students that come from smaller high schools to be placed in better colleges where they might not have this opportunity, because bigger high schools have the ability for their students to be recognized just because of…

Is standardized testing really improving education? Everyone hates testing so why not put an end to it? There’s a 70% of teachers agree that their state assessments are not developmentally appropriate for their students. Only 13% agreed that the test, their students took met the standard they were looking for. Standardized testing is not improving education in America. Teachers learn during their training and through experience that each child’s readiness to learn new skills and concepts varies…