Personality tests

because each student is following the same criteria when writing. These teachers do this because they “feel compelled to teach to the test” (Fanetti 79). Most of the information the students will learn throughout the year will be to prepare them for their standardized tests. Teachers may also feel a great deal of pressure to do what ever they can to make sure they pass the test because “if too many students perform poorly on the statewide assessments, the teachers can lose their job and the…

controversial topic. The usage of standardized tests has increased since the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) required yearly standardized tests in all 50 states. Standardized tests were made to hold both teachers and students accountable, but in recent years, the U.S has fallen behind in various subjects educational wise. Most students in todays’ society are pressured by their school districts to excel on standardized tests. Standardized tests have many effects on the mental and physical…

College admission tests such as the ACT have been given to students across the country since the 1950s. Short for American College Testing, this college readiness assessment is a test for high school students. For the last 15 years Illinois has been administering the ACT to students during the school day free of charge. Recently Illinois made a proposal to drop the ACT and give juniors the SAT instead. The decision is surrounded by lots of controversy. I believe that Illinois should allow…

Standardized Testing: The con Standardized tests should be eliminated because student achievement hasn't been improved. Standardized tests is said that it has not increased creativity or curiosity on education. According to late education researcher Gerald W. Bracely, “Qualities that standardized tests cannot measure include creativity, critical thinking, resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance,reliability, enthusiasm, empathy, self awareness, self discipline,…

High stakes assessments are a method which has been utilised on a global level to test the knowledge of students. There can be a number of purposes for the tests however they must be accountable to be considered high staked. All of the sources chosen discuss aspects of HSA or examples of HSA such as HSC or NAPLAN. They include opinions about the impacts of HSA, why HSA is so important today compared to when it was first introduced and the alternatives to this stress causing method. By drawing on…

quickly made it easier for them to finish testing than it was for me to finish. As a result I always expected everyone to get other students to get better scores than I did. It would be difficult to sit there and watch other students go and turn in a test when I may be only have way done. It can start to be discouraging and make you question your knowledge compared to other students and peers. This connects to when…

States is random drug tests being done on students, if it is wrong or right. So are you going to let your kid be randomly drug tested at school for good benefits or are you going to not let them? Even though drug tests are random and some people think they are bad here is why they should be allowed to be done, it is better to stay aware of kids are taking drugs, students can’t out smart the test, and less drugs have been taken since random drug tests have started. Drug tests will show you if…

(NEA), “The tests as we know them today were not used until the late 1920s and College Board created the very first SAT and still is responsible for these tests today.”(Alcocer & Fletcher, 2009) Students begin taking standardized tests in pre-kindergarten and continue the practice beyond the end of their high school career. “On average, by the time a student graduates high school, the individual has taken close to 112 standardized tests.”(Strauss, 2015) With the growing popularity of tests…

essential to seeing what kids know, others say that it is inaccurate and more stressful than anything else. These tests have been around since the 1920s and are currently used in high schools, colleges, and even elementary schools across the states. I believe that Standardized testing should be abolished from schools and be replaced with a series of tests throughout the year. These tests are stressful, inaccurate, and unfair. Some people may say that standardized testing is needed to properly…

Use of Standardized Tests in Education “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I can guarantee you that.” A wise statement made by First Lady Michelle Obama on the effectiveness of standardized testing in our nation’s public schools (Last). The current use of such testing in the United States has proven non-beneficial to student education for the long-term in an unsettling amount of ways, including that of its unreliable measurability and…