Criterion-referenced test

Like standardized tests are today, they were mainly used to make decisions about college admissions and high school graduation. Now, standardized tests are used more for college admissions than high school graduation. After World War II, standardized tests were administrated more broadly. Many of the educators liked standardized tests because of the fact that they evaluate a student’s performance in a more objective and scientific process. Standardized tests have progressed into tests such as;…

of college-level courses. The SAT is meant to test a student’s reasoning and critical thinking skills that they have acquired during their secondary education. Standardized testing is currently used for college admissions nationwide. If a student were to receive a low to mediocre score on the SAT, they would automatically be ineligible to meet the standards of such notable university such as Harvard,Yale, Stanford and so on. The SAT was created to test college-bound students on their…

standardized test measure a student’s intelligence or ability to think critically? How does the ACT and SAT play a big role in placing students in categories without any real concept of that student’s capabilities? There are many reasons a standardized test is used; these reasons are to get an idea of where a student is academically in the school year, to see how much a grade has improved, as well as, what schools a student can attend throughout their schooling careers. Standardized tests have a…

instruction and assess that instructing is aligned to the standards. The con’s of testing go back to the beginning of standardized testing. There was a report on NPR Sunday explaining the problem was clear from the beginning. When students taking the test were asked what was missing from a house in the story, the correct answer was a chimney, Italian students thought the missing item…

schools have now changed their entire curriculum to teach these standardized tests and pay their teachers based on the results. Nonetheless, the public school system needs reforming in a way that professors teach students more than what the test curriculums assesses them on by adding other essential information into their lessons, teachers need a just payment on how they teach in the classroom rather than on the test results, and the calculation of a school’s compensation shouldn’t be…

Imagine a third grade girl about to take her first standardized test. She is nervous about the test because it is not a normal classroom test. Over the past month, her teacher has reviewed everything that she and her classmates have learned the entire year. As she looks around the room, she observes other nervous peers. Unfortunately, standardized tests have grown more frequent in schools at all levels, and “when future educational historians look back at the last few decades of U.S. public…

Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) and students in certain classes must take End-of-Course (EOC) Assessments. In order to identify and address ELL students’ needs the State of Florida implemented ACCESS for ELLs 2.0. “ACCESS for ELLs 2.0 is a large-scale test of English language proficiency based on the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards that form the core of WIDA’s approach to instructing and assessing ELLs in Grades K–12” (Florida Department of Education). Teachers should use…

My Educational Experience as a Student John Holt, the author of an essay “School is Bad for Children” insists that traditional educational style does not provide children an ideal environment to learn, for it oppresses children’s subconscious intellectual curiosity by making them sit quietly in a classroom all day long. He made some suggestions in order to improve it; he asserts abolishing compulsory education and the fixed required curriculum, giving children an opportunity to learn about the…

use of standardized test scores in American undergraduate admission. In the recent decade, the SAT and the ACT have become an increasingly important factor in evaluating the burgeoning number of college applicants, largely because of their comprehensiveness and standardization in the education industry. According to The New York Times, an overwhelming amount of 1,666,017 students took the ACT and 1,664,479 took the SAT in 2012. These dedicated students didn’t just take the tests for the sake of…

erasers. They were constantly preparing for the standardized test they were about to receive. The students in the front row had prepared throughout the summer; the artist in the back was drawing on a spare sheet of paper to calm her nerves, and I was in the middle of the room humming a Clarinet Concerto. I knew a better score was imperative towards getting accepted into college, but standardized testing was not my forte. Standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT do not accurately reflect a…