Test preparation

fails to pass a standardized test or regents exam. Further, it is not fair, for teachers to be criticized based on how well their students perform in their state exams. In addition, it is also not fair for principals to use test scores to judge teachers how effective and ineffective they are? Ever since, the nation has industrialized, we have forgotten how strenuous teaching is and often times, they are not always observed fairly and their accomplishments are also not always acknowledged.…

every person receives a number based on their intelligence. Test scores determine one’s number. High numbers mean the person is intelligent, or they cheat, and low numbers would mean the person is unwise, or suffers from test anxiety. What would your number be? Standardized tests came about in 1845 as a replacement to oral exams— given to prove knowledge in paper form. In 1920 the SAT made its debut as the first voluntary standardized test given to those on track for higher education. Forty…

Coleman, College Board president, proponents of a common curriculum in the United States have aligned the SAT test with the CCSS. The SAT has been an adaptable test. The primary function of the test was to forecast the success of the test taker in college. Sower (2015) stated the SAT test now is a test that tells what the test taker currently knows and understands. Sower is inferring that the test has lost is uniqueness and the SAT’s value has diminished and our students and family’s education…

2017 2. Cognitive Competency Test (CCT) – The test assesses a wide range of cognitive skills, incorporating twelve subtests that can provide…

which would be one of the things I would love to advocate a change for. Assessment should employ a holistic approach as opposed to what obtains presently. Much emphasis is laid on test scores and funds with little or no recourse to the importance of assessment in effective teaching. The pronounced emphasis laid on test scores have an adverse effect on other components of testing e.g. grading. Most schools grading system had to follow the education governing bodies laid down rule on grading…

It’s just the teachers fault for not effectively teaching a bigger class, which invalidates the claim that reducing the sizes of classrooms will effect test scores or performance. Studies have consistently proven over the years that smaller class sizes improve test scores and have exam scores. Students in smaller classes often have performed better and proven the effectiveness of small group instruction especially among the first years of school. Researchers…

Analysis of “Standardized Tests Effectively Measure Student Achievement” Herbert J. Walberg, a former teacher at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, exhibits his professional views on standardized testing. In the article, “Standardized Tests Effectively Measure Student Achievement” Walberg exhibits his views on the benefits of standardized testing. Walberg says, “Standardized tests fairly and comprehensively measure student performance, thus directly benefiting…

students performed on standardized tests that they took in eighth grade and beyond, such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) when the students entered 11th grade and the rate of which these students attended colleges. The researcher found that many…

grades? Many students who get poor scores will not apply to colleges. Colleges should not use standardized test scores for student admissions because scores do not show a student’s learning capabilities, some good students do not test well, and all students do not have access to test preparation programs. Scores do not show a student’s learning capabilities. Many students who are poor test takers are strong, independent, and motivated people. They can communicate well and are well disciplined.…

ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” As a junior in high school who has taken numerous standardized tests since elementary school, I am very perturbed in how fair or just standardized testing is. With all the controversy going on today about standardized testing, what society fails to realize is that standardized tests are neither fair nor objective and that their use only deteriorates the education system because they cause teachers to cheat,…