Penetration test

Thesis: The government should require drug testing for all applicants. Supporting Point #1: Hardworking tax payers should not have to support the portion of the population that chooses to do drugs instead of work. Supporting Point #2: If an individual can afford to purchase drugs, he or she does not need government aide. Supporting Point #3: Now days, most employers require applicants to undergo drug testing before they are eligible to be hired. Facts or examples to support #1: The majority…

today. Many people believe that it should happen because the recipients could use their income to buy illegal substances, but others believe that it could be considered discrimination and that it violates human rights. As of right now, 13 states drug test welfare recipients. The people who support welfare drug testing have quite a few reasons as to why they think it should happen. One of the biggest reasons I’ve seen as to why the recipients should be drug tested is that it could save taxpayers…

personalities and different ways of learning that works for them. For example, one student may learn better by watching somebody work out a math problem with tangible items, while another student may learn better by hearing someone speak about a topic. Tests like FCAT do not allow students to fully immerse themselves in the learning process, thus making standardized testing more difficult for students who do not necessarily fit the mold of the type-A student good at memorizing a few strategies…

this study is the rationale for using out-of-level testing. There are three main themes to this sections. The first is, overly difficult tests promote increased guessing and student frustration, which reduced the accuracy of the test results. The basic question is whether students who score low on grade level tests would score higher on lower level of the same test. To answer this question much of the research on out-of-level testing has examined the effects on raw scored and derived scores.…

that all students of every age are familiar with. Every day students are forced to take tests or being forced to prepare for a test. According to James W. Popham, there are two different types of standardized tests. There is aptitude and achievement tests. Aptitude tests are used to predict how well kids will do in a new education setting. An example of this is the SAT and the ACT. The other type is achievement tests. These are used in American school systems to evaluate schools and students…

defined what test anxiety is, and what it means. In the article, it first showed how test anxiety truly is a problem, which can cause bad test scores in students all over the United States. The article further explained why the anxiety-ridden students perform poorly on their tests, “because they are too preoccupied with the thoughts about failure before or during a specific evaluation.” (Article 1: (H. Cho, 2016) ) The article also explained how cognitive techniques can reduce test anxiety. They…

grade and continues through the years of every young child’s education. It tests to see what the student has retained that year, and to make sure that the school is up to standards on what is being taught in the classrooms. While standardized testing is a good thing in making sure educators know what to teach, and it holds schools accountable for education, it is also outdated and has room for improvement. Standardized tests allows for a broad comparison of different states and school districts…

is by taking standardized tests. By comparing all the students to the set standard the schools are being judged on what they need to improve on. Standardized testing is the best way to improve the performance of the students and the instruction of the school. Standardized testing more or less brings changes to schools around the United States. Dawn Flanagan, Jennifer Mascolo and Steven Hardy-Braz stated in their article Standardized testing that “standardized test results provide…

standardized tests issued every year. These tests were formed to examine whether or not a student has learned enough materials and is ready to move on to the next grade-level. These tests vary in the amount of time and format, depending on the disciplines. Krishna Narra, the author of the article, “Moving beyond standardized tests,” states that some of the consequences of the standardized tests, such as TAKS, STAAR, AP, SAT, and ACT are “narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, pushing…

In K-12 education there has always been too much emphasis on “test scores”, and not enough emphasis on the learning aspect of education. Most people that have ADHD, or an anxiety of tests, know everything before and after the text, but not during the actual test. Many people need and use special accommodations such as testing in a separate area, using extended time, or not even having a time limit. These accommodations help somewhat, but not very much. There needs to be a way for schools to…