SAT Subject Tests

some students become flustered under test or exam conditions; consequently many geniuses used to get unsatisfactory grades. Intelligence has been defined in countless ways including one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving. An individual learns differently from others and their results are based on their passion or skill for the subject. A student may prefer or be…

Many of us are familiar with the term “Math Anxiety” because we often hear it among students that fear the subject Mathematics. The formal definition of math anxiety as defined by Tobias (1993) is a feeling of nervousness or worriedness that creates tension, therefore preventing someone, usually a student in a college-community setting, to manipulate numbers and solve mathematical problems without panic, paralysis, and mental disorganization. Math anxiety is acknowledged by psychologists around…

Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, Ethos Statistical reports contain all three rhetorical appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. A statistical report’s audience grabber is logos. Logos represents logical evidence the author provides in writings. The author’s claims appear in the thesis statement and are explained in full detail later on in the report. The claims are about a problem in the education field that needs to be looked at, such as improvement in reading and math levels of children from…

Paraphrasing 1- Galileo had the capability to make quite a few great findings with his telescope. He was able to make some great findings about Jupiter, the Moon, and even the Milky Way with his complex machine called telescope! The telescope was a less complex then even today’s most basic telescope. 2- The quantities vary with extroverts and introverts in America, there is much more extroverts. But unfortunately, this puts a huge amount of stress on introverts to blend in and be the same…

to submit an agreement on their policy to insurance companiesDrug testing employees can be very costly to employers. The usual cost of drug testing ranges from twenty dollars to several hundred dollars per employee or more depending on the specific tests involved. These costs start to add up if an individual owner or a corporation has…

The moral issue in case study 5 was a challenging situation for me to begin with. My personal ethical decision choice turned out to be unethical or immoral compared to the text. I eventually had to change my way of thinking and view Ms. Greens dilemma the way the book would. The decision I believe is the most ethical when pertaining to Ms. Green's situation is, she should disregard Matthew's family financial situation because he was caught cheating and give him the B he deserved. Giving him a…

The use of formative assessment in the high school setting is regular practice. Because students are accumulating credits and are required to take multiple state test, it is of extreme importance that they retain information and master concepts. Unlike public schools, where accountability drives testing and assessment, charter schools are not under the same intensive microscope. (Wepner, 2014) I use formative assessment for sole purpose of identifying deficient skills prior to my students…

future were determined just by performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here today. I guarantee you that.” Can you believe that Michelle Obama said that?The reason why students shouldn't take standardized tests is because it takes up too much time, takes money from citizens, and they are hard to prepare and study for. First of all standardized tests take up too much time. Two to three percent of time is spent on taking standardized tests. Another unacceptable thing about time being…

Summary and Response In the article “The Facts about the Achievement Gap”, author Diane Ravitch shows that privatization in the United States education system is a direct response to the achievement gap between white students and minorities. She is a “researcher of education at New York University” (prologue), and once served “in the U.S. department of education from 1991 to 1993” (prologue). Her personal experience in the field of education has shown that “privatization inevitably means…

never turned in an assignment a day in his life, but, who just so happened to get a better SAT score than you. Most students would be devastated; unfortunately this scenario is exactly what happens to many students who take the SAT. With that in mind, one may have to question if the SAT is a precise measurement of a student’s ability to be successful in college. Students are built of more than just their SAT scores.…