Norm-referenced test

However, looking further into the topic, another question comes to mind. Are Standardized Tests worth the time of the student? Students have to take these tests each year for about 12 years. The tests have many different names and have been implemented for over 20 years. The state assesses these tests and labels these as ready for the real world, but what are they ready for? I think that these standardized tests are actually hindering students and wasting their time much like General Education…

standardized tests taken by students, per year, from pre-kindergarten all the way to the 12th grade? This, of course, is not including the many exams and quizzes are given by teachers in public schools, and professors in colleges and universities. The Average student takes approximately 8 Standardized tests per year, but this doesn’t include the tests given by the teachers and faculty members (Strauss 2015). . Do students and teachers ever wonder why so many distinct standardized tests are…

interacting with life based out of desperation and necessity. While I was in secondary school I was not interested in following the crowd. If I chose to have friends, they were usually the ones that were considered strange and were outcasts of the social norm. I spent all my time on the sidelines watching the popular people bow to peer pressure and felt disgusted by them. If I felt that someone was being treated unfairly I would jump to their defense immediately. My actions resulted in my being…

completing all the household chores because it was the social norm in the time period! The first half go this excerpt is to accentuate the attitude of women preparing food…

Humans are extremely social creatures and it is a human trait to desire to be liked by others. This all goes back to hunter gatherer societies were if you were not a part of a group you would most likely die; only the humans that stayed together and did the same things as the rest of the group lived on. Going against the pack could get you lost and even killed. This happens nowadays but instead of it being purely on a survival motive, we do it to simply ‘fit in’. Peer pressure has a strong…

Pinker believes that people have so much trouble communicating because people are very sensitive and words can carry a lot of unnoticed weight behind them. Words are not the only thing that can be perceived in a variety of ways, however, as I have noticed that tone can be completely misread as well. Misinterpreted tone can turn a casual, sarcastic comment into a rude jab, or an honest compliment into an inappropriate come-on. Conversations are like playing Jenga, one wrong move and the entire…

NAMBLA’s actions were considered acceptable by the members. NAMBLA’s actions also are not normative. Almost all of Americans have sex with the opposite gender that is around their same age and this is considered a cultural norm. Therefore, NAMBLA’s actions go against the norm and are abnormal. NAMBLA’s actions are unexpected as well. It is not often you hear a story about a secret underground group that has sex with boys. When you think about a sex scandal story you probably think of an…

confined to certain expectation set by male standards. This can be seen in Emily Dickinson poem, “They shut me up in Prose,” where she introduces us to a world of inequality and uncertainty. Inequality in how it silences opposing views of the social norm, the voiceless stays voiceless. Uncertainty in how if things will ever change. Which is expressed in her other poem “I dwell in Possibility,” where the present and future seem to be blurred and time seems to not exist all together. These two…

challenged much by women; in fact, women did not see anything wrong with them because they were taught that it was the norm. This is where interpellation comes in—where it has always been in regards to women’s agency. The idea…

constantly judge the people around us and we automatically pick out the what we perceive as not normal. This constant judging influences our behavior since we are lead to behave in certain ways based on the situations just to fit the norms.These norms that are not strictly enforced are referred to as folkways. sees it as the “Right thing to do simply because the gesture of standing shows that we respect the people fighting for our nation and love the country were as sitting shows we don 't…