Criterion validity

(2009) Standardized Testing Education.com, December 23,2009 Retrieved from: //www.education.com/reference/article/standardized-testing/ The author believes that there are two types of test. One is the norm-referenced test and The other one is the criterion -reference test. The author believes both are a waste of time on evaluating student progress.one compares scores in bias of the other. One test is to determine testing with peers while the other one test with the curriculum. Personally, I…

Introduction High-stakes testing has consistently been a hot topic in education for decades. These tests are used to hold students, teachers, and school districts accountable for academic growth. But, what exactly is a high-stakes test? How did it evolve in education? Why does it matter? What are some of the intended and unintended consequences of high-stakes testing? Also, what arguments do the proponents and critics have about high-stakes testing? High-Stakes Tests Defined A high-stakes test…

Background summary: Standardized testing in schools implemented in response to the No Child Left Behind Act, has put children who have language disorders (LD) in a realm of disadvantage while being compared to their typically developing (TD) peers in terms of structure and context of the tests. SLP's have an alternative way of calculating quantifiable scores that assess LD children's skillset in the same areas as standardized testing (writing skills). Both tests take different approaches in…

Standardized tests are bringing this nation down, they expect students to memorize a plethora of information that they most likely will never need in their future. Standardized tests are currently a very controversial issue, should they be kept to keep an equal grading system for students, or should tests be more tailored to students so that everyone can show off their individual skills rather than what they have memorized. Standardized tests force teachers to teach to them rather than teaching…

Today students in the United States are being bombarded with standardized tests throughout the year and many of these students do not do as well or as expected. Standardized tests are used to either determine if a child is able to proceed to the next course or to measure the student’s growth throughout the years. Standardized test also measures which teachers and schools are teaching their students better, which leaves a bad reputation for the school’s who are having low scores. The problem with…

The second book assigned to me for my capstone leadership book is Leading with data: Pathways to improve your school. This topic is not a new subject to me with having read about data for several classes here at ACE. Data has never been so relevant in the field of education. Data is important to make changes on campus or illustrate results that must essential for schools to stay in operation. Every year schools look at data and decide what areas they need to improve upon if they want to make…

1. The name of the assessment was originally an acronym for the states that were originally included in the assessment, which were “Wisconsin (WI), Delaware(D), and Arkansas(A)”, but Arkansas “dropped out”, so it later became the “World-class Instructional Design and Assessment”. Now it is just known by “WIDA” (Mission & the WIDA Story). The WIDA is only given in English, I could not find any information about the assessment being done in any other language, which I believe is because the…

Standardized tests in relation to teachers is being taken too far; the extent some teachers are taking go as far as quitting jobs they love because they don’t get to teach what they want, or feel the need, to teach because of extreme amounts of standardized test studying. Stacie Starr was a teacher, who had been selected in 2014 as the “Top Teacher”. Shortly after this award was presented, she announced on a television show she was to quit as a teacher because her job entitled spending too much…

1.6 million students sat down and took the dreaded ACT in the year 2013. Of those 1.6 million at least a few questioned the origin and reason of a four-and-a-half-hour test. (NYT) The answer is simple. The first record of standardized tests came from China to test knowledge on “Confucian philosophy and poetry.”() It was introduced in the Western world as a result of the Industrial Revolution and the increased number of children coming into the schools. ()For almost every student in the 1.6…

Are standardized tests accurately measuring knowledge? Some people support standardized testing and some people are against them. I believe standardized test are not accurate measures of success in some conditions because, there are possibilities of the questions not being valid and the test do not measure life skills… First, standardized tests are used to judge teachers and students too much. “Basing teacher evaluations on inadequate standardized tests is a recipe for flawed evaluations,” says…