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    The Scholastic Aptitude Test or better known as just the SAT is a test that in high school that is a placement test for college. This test was not only used to place students into certain course once they enter college but it is also used to rate the schools themselves. Based on how the students did on the test at my high school, that would predict the next year by minor ways of getting to take a day off after the test is finished or bigger things like adding a course to teach us how to take the…

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    extensive longitudinal studies and national surveys over the past year says otherwise. Standardized testing has been around since 1905 starting with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. Fast forward fifteen years, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) was created. In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing new achievement tests designed to evaluate instructional methods and schools. Standardized testing ever since couple years of it’s introduction has stirred up controversy on the…

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    Standardized testing is a major issue that limits students’ ability to succeed. Standardized testing is unsuccessful in grasping the actual capabilities of a student’s potential, due to the difference in the way students minds work. A good example of this theory, is the quote by Edward de Bono, “Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.” Standardized tests are geared…

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    through your mind is that you must do well on this test. You need this in order to have the life you have dreamed of. The results from the test, which might not even show your true potential, determine your fate. With this I conclude that standardized testing is inaccurate, overused, and over emphasized as a criterion for college admission. Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of a student’s performance. They fail to measure importance skills such as creativity and critical…

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    The article, “Closing the Achievement Gap in Math: The Long-Term Effects of Eighth Grade Algebra” by Frances R. Spielhagen, gives an explanation of the benefits of students taking Algebra in eighth grade as opposed to students who start Algebra in ninth grade. Such comparisons that were examined included the amount of mathematics courses students took in high school when they took Algebra in eighth grade as opposed to students who were on a regular track. The study also compared how well these…

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    taught. 1,845,787 people took the ACT in 2014. In that same year 1,672,395 took the SAT. In this world people make standardized testing seem like it's a bigger deal than It really is. We should not do standardized testing because it does not effectively measure a student’s learning a teacher’s teaching and help colleges to be selective in admissions. The standardized testing does not measure students knowledge of a subject as much as people make it out to believe. The test does not measure…

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    Standardized Testing The use of standardized, aptitude, achievement and intelligence, tests is greatly relied upon across the country to assess and compare the intelligence and knowledge of each test taker to the whole. Some examples of these tests are SATs, ACTs, PARCC as well as other state or nationally regulated tests, such as AP tests. These tests predict performance and decide the future of the students who take these tests. The value given to standardized tests scores needs to be revised…

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    The Students Behind the Numbers ACT, SAT, GPA; three acronyms that every student dreads because the acronyms are commonly associated with the stress of college applications. Applying to college is a process that many high school seniors despise. A majority of college applications require students to submit numbers that define them: GPA, class rank, and standardized test scores such as the ACT or SAT. In fact, the SAT exam was first offered in the late 1930’s to help students without family…

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    Standardized process: standardized people In 1895 a young man, who has a history of poor grades in school, was rejected in an admission test for Zurich University. Ten years later he created three theories that revolutionized physics and, consequently, changed the way we understand the world. His name: Albert Einstein. So, how the most important scientist of the last 300 years was a bad student in his childhood? He wasn’t a bad student; just the way of teaching and evaluation, based on standard…

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    Illinois at Chicago, exhibits his professional views on standardized testing. In the article, “Standardized Tests Effectively Measure Student Achievement” Walberg exhibits his views on the benefits of standardized testing. Walberg says, “Standardized tests fairly and comprehensively measure student performance, thus directly benefiting students while holding teachers accountable.” Then Walberg gives his reasons to support standardized testing, while giving detailed explanations for his…

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