Standardized test

in poor and rural school districts are the dreaded achievement gaps despite decades of national attention on standardized assessments. School districts, leaders, and teachers must begin to examine their instructional practices to make sure that students are learning as demonstrated by their students’ performance daily in the classroom and then translated this same performance on standardized assessments. In order for this academic achievement to occur, school leaders must begin to build their…

Education” Act (1965), which was very similar to NCLB except with less federal control over education. The State of Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s website summarizes NCLB by saying “Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school. All students are expected to meet or exceed state standards in reading and math by 2014. The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by…

examine how standardized language assessment affects Chinese young learners’ motivation for second language learning. Adopting the L2 Motivational Self System as the theoretical framework, this survey-based research uses two sets of questionnaires among 6th-grade test takers of MSEET in a Chinese urban city. This study uses a pre-test questionnaire to elicit 6th-grade young learners’ self-perceptions about how their L2 motivation has been influenced by their Middle School Entrance English Test…

North Carolina’s standardized testing system has recently been under fire from parents, students, and even education leaders. Many locals feel this testing is placing undue pressure on students and teachers. A recent study found that twenty-five percent of a school year is spent preparing for and taking standardized tests (Kamenetz). A local parent, Eric Malone, expressed his concern by saying “The quality of education has dropped because this system only sees students as a number”. The current…

at Israeli middle school showed that the students displayed an improvement in mathematics and alphabet tasks when classes were just delayed by an hour. In Wake County, North Carolina they performed a study which resulted in higher scores on standardized tests with a later starting time. They found…

Many teachers around the United States are struggling to make a living off of the pay they are making. Teachers are not getting paid enough for the amount of time, work, and effort they put in every day to help us get the highest level of education. Why should teachers not be able to teach the bare minimum when they are getting paid the bare minimum amount? Teachers put their heart and soul into making sure we get the education we need to be successful in life but, are getting paid pretty much…

Commonly schools with high scores on standardized tests receive more money to improve their schools, while lower achieving schools are left to fend for themselves. Kozol discusses this in the difference between New York City schools in Manhattan and the Bronx. High achieving schools in Manhattan…

Is There a Perfect Way to Learn? In today’s society education is everything without it its tough to survive in this world. There is no perfect form of education every person is different, some learn better when someone’s talking aloud and some with presentations. Learning can sometimes be difficult but once you find the best learning strategies to benefit you it can change everything. Malack Mouhammad, author of the poem, the effects of Technology of Child Development, discusses how technology…

Anyone who has had a social media account over the last couple of years has probably seen a video of some parent trying to explain the tedious steps involved in their child’s math homework. What caused this slew of videos? Common Core standards. The frustration among parents is very clear, and it all seems to be for a program that is not proving itself to be anything more than a headache. Common Core has shown itself to be a huge letdown to students, teachers, and parents around the country.…

tested for more than 25% of their elementary and secondary education, and they don’t have some of the basic skills to be expecting to get into many exemplary colleges because they were left out of the curriculum in favor of subjects that are on the tests. These are the outcomes that the people on both sides of the No Child Left Behind Act, or the NCLB, believe will happen if it is reauthorized. The deadline for reauthorization for the No Child Left Behind Act is nearing fast, so we as a country…