Norm-referenced test

Standardized testing is often scrutinized by teachers instead of being looked at in a positive manner. There are many ways to utilize such a test. The best possible way would be to teach to the test. It not only benefits the original reason standardized tests are in place, it also provides a backbone for what to teach. It allows you to stay within professional boundaries and also allows the teacher to teach to their liking with what material is provided. A process such as this would help with…

thousands, of tests. They develop a skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.” – Howard Gardner 1991 The NCLB (No Child Left Behind) act was implemented in the year 2001 by President Bush as a way to improve our education system in America. A way that has caused for an over emphasis on testing while holding teachers accountable for those results; thus leading to lecturing and teaching to the test as a way…

I was naïve to think that I would pass that exam with flying colors. Reflecting on that test I started to develop a “fixed mindset” as Carol Dweck calls it. In the article, “The Perils and Promises of Praise” by Carol S. Dweck asserts, “In the fixed mindset, students care first and foremost about how they’ll be judged: smart or not smart.…

cannot be equated with higher test scores. In his article he elaborates on six key flaws of using testing like VAM to evaluate teachers. When using a test to measure teacher effectiveness, there is a statistical error rate of 35 percent when using one year’s worth of data, which would cause many to be misevaluated. Naturally, the test scores of students depend ultimately upon the students themselves, so year after year as students go through a teacher’s classroom the test scores can fluctuate…

Standardized tests, assessments given to students who are to answer the same questions or range of questions and that are graded in the same form, are a way the test-developers believe will be beneficial for the students and public schools around the United States, but unfortunately this assumption is wrong. With new manners of teaching, students as well as teachers are becoming stressed and are having anxiety as well as other health effects from the overbearing amount of regulated tests. The…

ACT and SAT are standardized test, which are taking by high schooler’s as a requirement for college acceptance. Chiefly, the testing evaluates the primary subjects, including math, science, reading and writing. However, the testing material is fashioned by the financially-driven testing business, that is a multi-billion-dollar industry. No surprisingly, the testing industry charges for books and curriculum, seminars, and the actual test. When I took the ACT, the test specifically stated that…

questions about me. Eventually, she was convinced that I had ADHD. However, she said that she did not have the capacity to officially diagnose me. I have always done exceptionally well in school,but I do have trouble focusing in class, especially during tests. Therefore, I would not be shocked if I am eventually diagnosed with ADHD. This diagnosis would not be shocking especially because my mother…

could prepare for the Ontario Secondary Literacy Test but after that, I quit since I had a lot of exams/tests coming up after that. When I grow up I want to become a Mental Health Guidance Counselor since I like helping others out and nobody’s alone since I am going through depression recently since my uncle/older brother past away recently. My things to do are reading books, watching my favorite tv show…

of educational material. The premise behind No Child Left Behind was that schools could improve their performance by setting standards and measurable goals. In order to measure progress of students and schools, standardized tests were implemented. While standardized tests can refer to both multiple…

however, the idea is to drug test applicants, random recipients occasionally, and recipients whom are suspected…