Student's t-test

At first glance, many observations can be made from the clothing one wears. The fit, the style, and the color all contribute to what identity one presents to the world. In “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, different garments represent the different cultures Sumita inhabits. Her saris, colorful and flowing, hold deep significance in her homeland and are worn during monumental and ceremonial moments. On the other hand, the tight and mundane American clothes demonstrate a more casual and…

performance on a standardized test, I wouldn 't be here. I guarantee you that”. A standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, is on a time limit, or is scored in a “standard” manner. The problem is, is that all students aren’t the same and colleges want diverse, critical-thinking students. Standardized tests are not an effective way to test students skills and abilities to get colleges what they want. Standardized tests should not be used in…

Standardized Test Requiring students to pass a standardized test to receive a high school diploma will not improve the educational standards or academic achievement in our schools. Every year students have to take tests to prove that they remember what they have learned that year and each year hundreds of students have panic attacks, blackouts, stress and they fail. In 2002 after no child left behind pass the standardized testing has not increase students achievement. Standardized testing hurts…

of discrimination against them. The most important type to discuss here is the overrepresentation of African Americans students in special education classes as a result of faulty assessment (Roseberry-McKibbin, 2014). Since most of the standardized tests are normed on Anglo children, one must keep in mind that their communication styles are probably different from those students with different ethnic background ad race. For instance, African American students’ narrative style is different from…

Teachers know what to teach and when to teach it, they are objective, and these tests hold schools and teachers accountable for their students test scores. However, the negative impact is much greater. Standardized testing only evaluates how a student is performing on one certain day. If that student is having a bad day it is possible for that same student to do poorly on the test. Standardized testing does not see the student as an individual. The students in our school systems…

the 2016 Rio Olympics, numerous athletes were sent home, disqualified, or even had their medals stripped of them after failing the required drug test which allows them to compete and to continue competing. Athletes who compete for national teams such as the NFL, NBA, and NHL, are all subject to drug testing and can have major consequences for failing a test. Drug testing has fallen down the athletic levels from college athletes, and to high school athletes. It became legal for public schools to…

to do better on the standardized tests that measure the learning that such education produces” (Sternberg). It’s obvious that students who come from low-income backgrounds are not able to afford the extra support that these exams offer such as textbooks, classes, apps, and tutors that are all geared towards the assessment. What benefit do extra resources provide for disadvantaged students when they can’t afford extra classes and textbooks to get ahead? Bronwyn T. Williams, a professor at the…

After reading, To Teach: The Journey, In Comics, by William Ayers, I agreed with his beliefs and convictions about teaching. His beliefs are very different than most teachers that I have had in the past in many different ways. For one, my teachers always had us sit in assigned seats that never changed and were in rows with their desk in the back of the classroom. On the other hand, Ayers talked about how “learning is active and not passive” and the students can not be very active if they are…

personalities and different ways of learning that works for them. For example, one student may learn better by watching somebody work out a math problem with tangible items, while another student may learn better by hearing someone speak about a topic. Tests like FCAT do not allow students to fully immerse themselves in the learning process, thus making standardized testing more difficult for students who do not necessarily fit the mold of the type-A student good at memorizing a few strategies…

this study is the rationale for using out-of-level testing. There are three main themes to this sections. The first is, overly difficult tests promote increased guessing and student frustration, which reduced the accuracy of the test results. The basic question is whether students who score low on grade level tests would score higher on lower level of the same test. To answer this question much of the research on out-of-level testing has examined the effects on raw scored and derived scores.…