Norm-referenced test

High stake tests have turned many classrooms into stressful environments rather than offering rich, engaging, and well-rounded surroundings. The debate over standardized testing in public schools has become more controversial on whether or not it is negatively impacting students and educators in America. Every year teachers are forced to give their students test after test on information that they are expected to know, because of these exams students are becoming less successful in the classroom…

Why We Should Get Rid of Standardized Testing Test. The word alone is enough to drive panic into the hearts of students everywhere. While some tests are bigger than others or worth more points, they all tend to elicit the same response of dread. However there is one type of testing above all others that needs to be removed and that is standardized testing. We should remove standardized testing because it costly and expensive, scores are used to reward or punish teachers leading to things like…

testing is a major focal point in modern education systems all over the world. The purpose of the tests is to measure the student’s and teacher’s abilities, and compare them to other students from around the city, country, and world on an academic level. The comparisons are supposedly one of the many “benefits” that come with frequent and relentless standardized testing. However, these standardized tests have no benefits whatsoever; only detrimental effects on the mental and physical health of…

their school’s scores from the previous years. However many times there are different aspects of the students’ lives that play a role in the scores that the schools are receiving. One of the most significant problems with the students taking these tests in the United States is that 29 percent of the students are living in poverty. Meaning that the students living in poverty…

defined by the level of consistency that the results and the quality of the measure or the ability of a test produce comparable across repeated measures within the same testing parameters and/or conditions (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2013; Bordens & Abbott, 2014). In terms of verifying reliability, however, there are basically three different types of evidence that confirms the overall validity of a test: construct-related evidence, content-related evidence, and criterion-related evidence (Kaplan &…

standardized test scores during the admission process. The standardized test, such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the American College Testing, was intended to be used as a tool that would determine a student’s brilliance and predict how well the student will perform in college. However, the standardized test is not a good indicator of how smart a student is, because every student has different skills and abilities. There are many intelligent and hard-working students, but the standardize…

wisdom has it that standardized tests don’t efficiently measure a student’s intellectual knowledge while others believe there is no other fair way to improve America’s education system as a whole. According to ProCon.org, the use of standardized testing has been around since the mid-1800s in the American education system. The way a state standardized test works is by having individuals test every year on a selected curriculum for each grade. The main intention for such a test is to record…

As one walks down the hallways of any school, he/she would expect to see many different kinds of people: the football players, the people finishing their homework frantically before the bell tone, and the people sitting on their phones, not even talking to their friends sitting next to them. What many people pass by without noticing is the group of students in choir and band warming up their instruments and voices, and lastly the people in drama class acting out scenes from their favorite plays…

College admittance standardized test have always been used as indicators of ability and achievement. For many college undergraduate and graduate students the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) are two of the most commonly used for admission, hence, they do not necessarily indicate how well a student will perform academically. Most admissions department are using the SAT & GRE test scores in addition to Grade Point Average (GPA) and extra-curricular,…

take a test to see if you would be accepted into that college but turns you didn’t get accepted because you didn’t do good on that test? Standardized testings in college can be really difficult. Some people can have different educational levels and not know a majority of questions that can be on these state tests. Standardized testings should not predict students success at college.Standardized testings should not be used as part of the admission process because a majority of people are bad…