Norm-referenced test

The current American educational system incorporates a method of evaluation known to every student as the dreaded standardized test. These tests range from state evaluations of grade levels to the ACT and SAT. The purpose of these tests is to fairly evaluate the performance of students and have comparable data. After tests are taken, data is grouped according to states, schools, race, gender, and other categories to compare student’s academic performance. While many claim that standardized…

As everyone knows many colleges require some form of test for admission into their program. This is a stressful process for students applying for college. Students are stressed because so much depends on getting the highest test score possible; therefore these tests should be eliminated. Even though the percentage of colleges using standardized tests to determine if a student is accepted is high, the outcome of these tests should not be a barrier to college admission. Colleges should not…

testing is a general overview test that is given to students across the country to determine their education level. SAT and ACT are two different tests alone, but each test is the same for each student. Since they are the same nationwide it allows admissions at universities to gain an…

Standardized tests are any form of test that (1) requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that (2) is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students. These tests usually have multiple choice and true or false fill in the circle test questions and are required to be taken within a certain amount of time…

More Than a Test Score How standardized are standardized tests? When a test is standardized, this means that a particular group of students will take the same test that will be fully scored and analyzed all the same way. The score that each student receive will then be compared to other students that have taken the same test. In most schools in the United States, we force students to take these test in order to ultimately evaluate a student’s intellectual level in a certain subject. They not…

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…

Standardized Testing A standardized test is any test that is administered and scored following a predetermined standard procedure. There are two main types of standardized tests: proficiency tests and achievement tests. Standardized tests predict how well students perform at any subsequent educational level or space. The most common examples are the SAT and the ACT, which attempt to predict how well secondary students will perform in college. However, when assessing the effectiveness of a school…

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…

Proponents argue that standardized tests have been deteriorating education in America, but 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…

The test themselves are also poor determinants of achievement because they only cover a small range of subjects, and even those topics cannot be fully examined through a multiple choice quiz. Some of the issues that arise are difficult to avoid. Daniel Koretz, an expert in educational testing, writes: “some goals, such as the motivation to learn, the inclination to apply school learning to real situations, the ability to work in groups, and some kinds of complex problem solving, are not very…