Psychometrics

To this day students are being taught to be test takers. Do students really learn anymore? Teachers expect students to sit and learn from a boring lesson and then take a test over the material. If teachers created or adjusted lessons to be fun, students would more likely benefit from it when taking a test. Yet, standardized test are not a good indicator of a student’s competency. Standardized test are not a helpful evaluation tool, students learn different ways, and there is too much worrying…

Within the education system, there are many reasons why standardized testing is flawed. While many government officials believe that standardized testing has more advantages than disadvantages, parents, teachers and students are facing oppressed teaching, a bleak education, narcissism, and a lack of respect for teaching. “We don’t need more data that continue to compare students to each other. We don’t need more standardized test data to keep telling the kids in the 95th percentile how superior…

First of all, Devilyn explains that competition causes issues in schools when it comes to contests and grades. In the article he explains, “For every state winner, there are thousands of participants in the local schools who have memorized lists of words in order to learn the lesson that education is really a mean-spirited process, that humilliation is the fruit of their effort, and that only one winner will celebrate a triumph whose satisfaction is measured by the suffering of others, not by…

Methods: Subjects: The study conducted an analysis of effects of sport-related concussion over the years for athletes. The study was approved by the University Review Board. The research was performed with a total of 120 participants of each division of College athletics. The study was carried out on groups with about 45 concussed symptomatic athletes, 45 concussed asymptomatic athletes and 45 non-concussed control athletes. The group is divided into the groups for test and monitoring…

General questions: In general questions have try to collect general and demographic information about respondents. This section includes 4 questions (gender, age, education, and occupation). B) Specialized questions: This section contains 49 questions. In the design of this section, the questions of the questionnaire have been as comprehensible as possible. To design this section, a five-choice Likert spectrum has been used, which is one of the most commonly measure scales. The general form and…

1) Who is the audience? The audience were parents, educators and the general public. 2) What concern raised in the article was most significant to you? The concern raised in the article that was most significant to me was the new test based on the common core standards that have caused students who once easily passed tests to suddenly be branded as failing. 3) Did Dr. King address the fears of the parents at the forum? Dr. King did not address any of the parent’s fear at the forum. Dr. King…

Standardized Tests How come standardized tests are so important? There are some people that think they are important for learning. There are parents that want there kids to take ST’s only cause they think it will help them learn more.So we are gonna talk about these tests. The first reason that I think St’s are good is because it helps students understand what they need to know and work on.It says the parents want their kids to take those tests. Again the first reason i think these…

Standardized testing should be abolished. It supports close-minded thinking and an uncreative mindset. Standardized testing is also extremely expensive and time consuming. Finally, testing is not an effective or reliable way to evaluate students and teachers. Some may find testing helpful, but I, along with many others, find it cruel and inaccurate. Although standardized testing measures some amount of knowledge, it does not display other important qualities. For example, standardized…

What I learned about standardized testing is that it’s a test that requires all the test takers to answer the same questions or a selection of questions from common bank of questions. I also believe that if the score is in a standard manner, it makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or group of students. I also learned that with a standardized test it an include true or false questions, short answer questions, essay questions, or a mix of these question…

1.) In regards to ELLS and federal legislation, I would say the legislation has hurt and helped the ELL students. The legislation has hurt ELLs because no laws overtly help them. Most legislation laws put in place for budget cuts for funding or strenuous demands on the assessments. The ELL students are required to pass the same grade level assessments with little or no help with translations. Federal legislations have helped in a few ways. I think more attention is being focused on the students…