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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is a good thing in making sure educators know what to teach, and it holds schools accountable for education, it is also outdated and has room for improvement.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…

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…