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Standardized testing has been around for many years, as far back as the nineteenth century. Like standardized tests are today, they were mainly used to make decisions about college admissions and high school graduation. Now, standardized tests are used more for college admissions than high school graduation. After World War II, standardized tests were administrated more broadly. Many of the educators liked standardized tests because of the fact that they evaluate a student’s performance in a…

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…

Data, Data, Data! Educators collect data daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly. As English teachers, we administer both formative and summative assessments throughout the year. The results of these assessments are then gathered, and analyzed in combination with the state mandated standardized test, finally giving us data that is vital to the building of curriculum and units used in the classroom. At Washington-Marion Magnet High School, where I currently teach, the data is an important factor…

Standardized testing has been praised since there first use of seeing who 's compatible for jobs in China. The West culture soon adopted them using them for military, and soon enough the education culture. They are now most famously used for education in America and are well known as the ACT and the SAT. As you may know, these tests are designed in a way which are recorded and administered in a consistent method. Since there overuse they have now been giving students unneeded stress,…

Throughout my educational career standardized testing has been a major part in determining whether or not you can proceed to the next grade or whether you have to take the class again. A Lot of kids that were my age when I had to take the STAAR test usually dreaded having to take a standardized test like the STAAR English II exam. I was no different, I was one of those kids who just wanted to get this test done with and move one. For a while this philosophy of mine worked, however that all would…

Since the start of elementary school, we are set with the mindset of grades. Grades are important. We were taught that we must excel in every subject to be able to go to college and live a good life. Is this true? The current education system teaches us to not learn the material but to just pass the test and get a good grade. I did not take AP World History sophomore year because I wanted to, I did it because it would look good on my transcript and boost my GPA. Is this the perfect way for us to…

We all know that dreaded acronym. An acronym filled with nerves and headaches for many high schoolers and takes hours to complete. It’s the test everyone has to take their junior year of high school, mostly in the western and southern parts of the United State. It stands for American College Test. It’s the ACT. Now originally, the ACT was used in the early 1900’s to help students from lower income families be recognized by ivy league schools. In modern time, the ACT is used as a required test…

Analysis of “Standardized Tests Effectively Measure Student Achievement” Herbert J. Walberg, a former teacher at Harvard University and the University of 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…

Fate in the Hands of a Scantron According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of a standardized test is; a test (as of intelligence, achievement, or personality) whose reliability has been established by obtaining an average score of a significantly large number of individuals for use as a standard of comparison. Right in the definition it says that they are used to compare large numbers of students. These tests discourage teachers from being creative, they know that…

“My daughter who is in third grade broke down crying as she attempted the third grade practice test” (Some Thoughts and Anecdotes on (High-stakes) Standardized Testing). Standardized testing affects everyone including the little ones who are just starting out to take these tests. Along with the tests providing stress, it also identifies which students excel and which students need help. The stress and the labeling involved with these tests is not even worth it because it does not prepare the…