Penetration test

often times can reflect portions of the ACT testing as well. These are two high stakes tests that many post-secondary education institutes require positive marks on. Without good scores on these exams, a student can graduate high school without a problem, however, entrance into university becomes significantly more difficult if students do not score within a certain range. Furthermore, the stress of these tests effect students’ general performance in school. It is expected that they prepare for…

see these tests in a few different ways. These people either believe that the tests that their kids and other students are being a part of a big learning joke. A joke that says that the tests prove nothing.…

In school whenever I thought about standardized test, I only thought about myself and how it affected me as a student, but as an educator, I really never understood how I should go about it. Something that I realized was that a lot of my teachers act bummed out whenever standardized test would come around. They would use phrases like "I 'm so sorry that you have to take this test" or "I hate these tests just as much as you do," yet in this class we, discussed how much they…

the pervasive use of standardized tests across the American educational fabric. By definition, standardized tests, according to ProCon.org (2014), refer to tests “that are administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard manner, more often than not, predetermined.” The tests occur in different forms, and are characterized by multiple-choice questions, which are automatically graded by test scoring machines. According to Rochon (2013), the use of standardized test scores in college admissions…

Everyone goes through life trying to be successful; but what actually is success? It is very difficult to define success because it is subjective to the person experiencing it. For instance, to a little child, success could be getting a gold star on his test, for a college student, success could be not failing an exam. Many people, however, just think of success in terms of money. If they cannot buy the same things their neighbors can, they do not see themselves as successful compared to those…

Teens, in the United States, are constantly pressured by parents to do well academically, so they can make it in life, It had gotten to the point that the grade of a student is the ambition and not the learning material and grasping it. Every student wants to make a bug in life, but not everyone knows the ways to success. Jay Gatsby is the embodiment of the American Dream. He went from a poor Midwestern farmer to a wealthy businessman running large extravagant parties. His lifestyle: however,…

Standardization testing has been around since the 1960s to prove the knowledge each student has. Tests such as the SAT and the ACT which will determine your college education, career, and future. As well as the state testings, under the ruling of the No Child Left Behind act, that decides how much funding a school get based on how the students are taught and how much they learned. However, these types of tests have huge negative impacts on students lives and futures. Many teachers, students,…

because of how afraid I am, it’s really no fun at all. Sometimes I fear for different things. Most of the time I fear for little silly things, but sometimes I fear for serious things. An example of a serious thing I fear for is definitely test. We have so many test that it gets pretty stressful and I begin…

our students. In 2008 a researcher from PBS looked at education in Finland, their dropout rates are extremely low compared to the United States. Finland is a country that promotes the creative side of children, sees them as individuals rather than a test score for funding. This kind of mentality is why Finland has such low dropout rates. Once teachers and schools start treating our children like individuals with hobbies, ideas, and feelings, the United States will see an extreme shift in how…

interested in. If you want to be an accountant, you can be an accountant. If you decide that accounting isn’t for you, you can stop being an accountant and pursue becoming a teacher solely on your personal decision. In England they take a sort of IQ test and the kids with…