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In the editorial “ Opting Out of Standardized Tests Isn’t the Answer” The editorial board argues how opting out is not the best option to take towards standardized test. The editorial board develops the ir argument by giving examples that talk negatively about the idea of opting out of standardized tests. Their purpose is to persuade people into having a negative view towards standardized test, in order to get the audience to have a similar reaction towards the opt-out activists as the…

Every year students are forced to take standardized test while they are in school to test their knowledge and their growth year to year, but do these tests truly test a student’s knowledge and growth? No, while sometimes they accurately measure a student’s knowledge and growth, often it does not. The way to make this more accurate is to not necessarily get rid of standardize test but make them to where they are helpful to the students and place them in classes with students that have similar…

There are innumerous standardized tests available such as Stanford, Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and California Achievement Test. • Standardized tests scores are considered the only statistical component of an application that is common to every student. It provides a numerical indicator that assists the school admission to fairly compare candidates. • The GPA is key, though not always reliable since not every school offers the same classes (AP, Honors) and there is subjectivity in the…

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.…

Standardized test plays a very important role in children’s education. Students take a standardized test at least once or twice a year. A standardized test is “a test (as of intelligence, achievement or personality) whose reliability has been established by obtaining an average score of a significantly large number of individuals for use as a standard of comparison (Webster Dictionary).” Throughout the year teacher(s) prepare the students the best way they can in order for students to become…

one-size-fits-all assessment, has ultimately disregarded many critical differences among students that only enforces cycles of disempowerment in the future. By placing students of low socioeconomic status and students of race in unfair contexts, all standardized tests do is disadvantage already disadvantaged groups. In fact, as the National Center for Fair and Open Testing reports in 2011, “Testing leads to standardized instruction that ignores individual differences, needs and cultural…

Experimental Procedures Identification Procedures Sight/Smell Test Used the scale to obtain 0.5 g of each of the known substances and placed into their own cell in the microscale wells (being sure to label each cell with the proper substance). Used the eyes and the nose to compare the physical characteristics of the unknown substance with all of the known substances in the microscale wells (visual appearance and scent). Narrowed down the known substances (keeping the substances that look…

The main points to this chapter were the arguments and objections that were trying to answer the following question “Could Machines Think?”. These arguments consisted of the Piecemeal-Replacement Argument, The Tipping Point Objection, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room argument. This chapter is composed out off arguments and objections that are trying to prove that robots can think. The Piecemeal-Replacement Argument stated that machines could think, and it involved an unrealistic story,…

Do your best on the test- This statement of encouragement is often used in North Carolina schools right before students complete standardized tests. Standardized tests are common and this memorable and catchy saying is used to motivate students to succeed. With that being said, what exactly is a standardized test? According to the Glossary of Education Reform, “A standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a…

A standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer same questions or a selection of questions from common bake questions. Also, all of the tests are scored in a “standard” or consistent form. Which makes it possible to compare the relative performance from an individual student or a group of students. The test is in a multiple choice format asking different types of questions; such as true-false questions, short-answer questions, essay questions or a mix of all of…