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"Believing we can improve schooling with more tests is like believing you can make yourself grow taller by measuring your height" (Students Against Testing). All students that attend a public school in the United States are required to take standardized tests starting in third grade. Then those students have to take at least two a year until they enter high school, and once in high school students have to continue taking the same type of tests along with other standardized tests such as AP tests…

Do standardized test weigh more on a college application? How can one test determine whether or not a college should accept a student? Such a test is SAT which is simply an entrance requirement for most of the colleges and universities that plays a major role in determining whether or not a student gets admitted or not. Standardized tests such as SAT’s are meant to be a predictor of student’s success in college but they at times are the factors that outweigh a student’s GPA, well balanced resume…

The assessment is used to decide whether a program accomplishes the goals of the program and ensures stakeholders stay on task producing constantly improving results by examining all areas of the program, including needs assessments, cost analysis, staffing roles and responsibilities, efficiency audits, direct professional results and next steps. The article presented two different viewpoints regarding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). An article printed in the American Educator stated…

The Effects of Standardized Testing in Education Standardized testing is not a reasonable measurement of student comprehension. The material that students should be learning has been manipulated into a score rather than knowledge of the material. Education itself is now solely based off of tests and not if the students know the material or even know skills that will help them out of school. The school system is no longer teaching students, they are only providing students with enough…

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…

Many individuals have been wondering if the overall statistic of students who live in more affluent neighborhoods will perform better on their SAT test than those who live in a lower income neighborhood. SAT stands for Scholastic Aptitude Test, which is designed in order to test a high schooler's knowledge. This exam is widely used as a college admission test that tests your knowledge of reading, writing and math, the core that students receive education in their high school career. While many…

“Standardized testing causes severe stress in younger students.” So, why are we still taking them? Some people support standardized tests, and some people are against them. I believe standardized tests are not a useful way of determining knowledge of a student, because they don’t measure creativity, verbal skills, also they're wrong about a person's ability and only measure a small portion of what makes education meaningful. My first reason of why I am against standardized tests is because they…

Specific Purpose: My specific purpose for presenting this speech and persuading my audience is for me to show you the dark side of standardized testing and why it may hurt a lot of students rather than helping them. I will try my best to get my listeners to join my side on this argument. Thesis Statement: There are plenty of positive and negative aspects of standardized testing but to truly determine this argument you need to learn more about the history of standardized testing, how it impacts…

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…