Test case

The third activity in which Allison and I completed was practice with writing lowercase letters as part of the language domain. After reviewing the previous week’s take home activity, it was clear that Allison preferred writing with capital letters rather than lowercase which suggested she needed more practice with learning lowercase letters. For this activity, I cut small orange pumpkins and wrote each lowercase letter of the alphabet on the pumpkins and mixed them up in the pile. Allison…

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…

would it not? Personally, I do not believe that there should be technology in every single classroom. Many people will believe that technology is the only way for human kind to advance. While that may be true in some regard, that is not always the case in classroom. To say such a thing would be grouping all students into a single group and would give them a single way to learn: technologically, not traditionally with a pen and paper. But, as we all know, every person (to some degree) is unique,…

extremely unfair and is not accurate at all, the test subjects students to a useless and ultimately harmful test for no reason at all. It is inaccurate in the sense that the test in one subject is taken over the course of a day. Depending on factors often outside of the student’s control, the child cannot be held totally responsible for the resulting score. Standardized testing causes extreme, unnecessary stress on not only the students taking the test, but the teacher as well. It…

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Use of Standardized Tests in Education “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I can guarantee you that.” A wise statement made by First Lady Michelle Obama on the effectiveness of standardized testing in our nation’s public schools (Last). The current use of such testing in the United States has proven non-beneficial to student education for the long-term in an unsettling amount of ways, including that of its unreliable measurability and…

the white students. Districts and schools were no longer allowed to solely rely on the achievement of high performing students to establish failure or success (Ladson-Billings, 2006). The administration dictates districts and schools to disaggregate test information for all subgroups and students within the school and make sure that each group is able to meet the required standard (Norman et al., 2001). The issue of achievement gap is a mystifying one for districts and schools within the United…

standardized achievement tests should not be used to measure the effectiveness of a school or its teachers, even though the tests were and are still often used for such a purpose. Popham believes that while these tests roughly measure a student’s strengths and weakness and can provide useful information to both teachers and parents, they are, however, inadequate evaluating tools to gauge a school’s effectiveness. In the article, Popham states three reasons why standardized achievement tests are…

timed by 25, 20, and 10 minute intervals. What if a student reads slowly and cannot finish the reading section in 25 minutes? What if a student has trouble figuring out a math problem and does not have enough time to finish it? What if a student’s test anxiety interferes with his or her progress? Their scores are affected by these problems and could potentially have a lower score than expected. This number is supposed to prove their knowledge and skill to a college that they wish to attend. That…

impact on the body and the mind, and substance abuse can inhibit everyday activities. However, there is dissent on the topic of mandatory drug testing. Drug tests may be given as a pre-employment or participation requirement, randomly, on a scheduled basis, or in cases of reasonable assurance of drug use. Some of the most common places where tests are administered include schools, the workplace, and athletics. It may seem simple; since drugs are generally viewed negatively, why are there not…