Psychometrics

Imagine a third grade girl about to take her first standardized test. She is nervous about the test because it is not a normal classroom test. Over the past month, her teacher has reviewed everything that she and her classmates have learned the entire year. As she looks around the room, she observes other nervous peers. Unfortunately, standardized tests have grown more frequent in schools at all levels, and “when future educational historians look back at the last few decades of U.S. public…

For countless years, students have had the experience of taking at least one standardized test. Standardized tests have been in use a long time to measure a student’s progress in core subjects. Standardized testing has changed the purpose of school. Going to school each day only to be educated the test. Not only does the students miss out on what they should learn to prepare for themselves for when they become adults, but also the teachers. The teachers do not have the time to teach their…

Silence fills classrooms throughout America. The only sounds heard are the scribbling of pencils on paper, the rubbing of erasers, the flipping of pages, and the footsteps of the teacher pacing throughout the classroom. Shoulders are hunched, hair is being pulled anxiously between twiddling fingers—behold the reality of standardized testing. Standardized testing is modifying classrooms in the 21st century. Standardized testing in schools should not be as enforced as it currently is because…

English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing student population within the United States. According to a recent report by the U.S Government Accountability Office, approximately 5 million ELL students were enrolled in schools, representing an estimated 10% of all public school students (GAO, 2006). In California, it is already the case that more than 25% of the students in grades PK-12 are ELLs (Stokes-Guinan & Goldenberg, 2010). Therefore, it is of utmost importance to understand…

Throughout time, many colleges and universities have assigned a great deal of weight to standardized test results as a part of the admissions criteria. However, over the past recent years the objective behind standardized testing being a good indicator of college success has been questioned nearly across the board. While college admissions boards have been using standardized testing since the early 1900s to evaluate students’ potential academic performance, questions have arisen as arguments…

Merit of Standardized Testing There are countless stories of students who are bright in the classroom, but “do not test well”. Students at any level could be excelling in the classroom, but when it comes time to sit down under pressure with a time limit, they cannot recall certain information effectively or quickly enough. Bronwyn T. Williams writes about his twin sons. One excels on standardized tests while the other does not. The one who does not test well, blossoms in the classroom and is a…

“Why do I even have to take this stupid test?” I told myself after having to take the ACT for the third time with no luck of improving my score. My parents kept telling me to retake it because the higher the score, the better it will look when applying for colleges. Why do they look at this test so closely? This question crept through my mind through the years I would have to put up with the ACT. I clearly wasn’t good at taking standardized tests. Wasn’t my high school transcript enough? I…

Ever since around the 1920s, schools have utilized test such as the SAT or the ACT to measure intelligence. These test were given to compare how one school competes against other schools for a national test average. Even today, they are used nationwide to measure growth.A popular question has arisen throughout our country. Just how accurate are these test anyways? Many people think that these tests are not very effective in determining an individual’s intelligence as well as other methods. So,…

This paper will compare and contrast two assessments that could be used in an organizational environment to assist with selection and development of individuals within the organization. The Winslow Profiles, developed by Waitley et al. (2012) and Customer Service Profiles, developed by PsychTests AIM (2011) are the two assessments that will be used to discuss the impressions, general differences, and the application of psychological tests at an organizational level. The criteria needed for a…

Leroy et al. (2000) used 4 microsatellite primers to characterise Brassica oleracea accessions. Among the 136 reproducible fragments generated, 25 (18.4%) fragments were common for all Brassica, 27 (19.9%) were unique and 84 (61.7%) were phylogenetically informative. Flannery et al. (2006) assessed polymorphisms in Brassica, Arabidopsis, Camelina, Raphanus and Sinapis using 10 plastid SSR primer sets. Eight loci were polymorphic, and separated the individuals of Brassicaceae into taxon-specific…