The Criterion Collection

1.6 million students sat down and took the dreaded ACT in the year 2013. Of those 1.6 million at least a few questioned the origin and reason of a four-and-a-half-hour test. (NYT) The answer is simple. The first record of standardized tests came from China to test knowledge on “Confucian philosophy and poetry.”() It was introduced in the Western world as a result of the Industrial Revolution and the increased number of children coming into the schools. ()For almost every student in the 1.6…

Are standardized tests accurately measuring knowledge? Some people support standardized testing and some people are against them. I believe standardized test are not accurate measures of success in some conditions because, there are possibilities of the questions not being valid and the test do not measure life skills… First, standardized tests are used to judge teachers and students too much. “Basing teacher evaluations on inadequate standardized tests is a recipe for flawed evaluations,” says…

Tollway Fee Removal Many people in the United States use car transportation to travel throughout the country. The most common roadways traveled through are highways and along with highways comes a toll charge. Many states use tollways to refund to the damage done on roads throughout years, but this is also very expensive for travelers. As stated by the Illinois Toll Way “The average toll rate on the Illinois Tollway is 6 cents per mile. The typical rate for a passenger vehicle at a manned toll…

By the end of 2017 Faye had been at SportsEngine for only 4 months, so this review is abbreviated. Faye was hired to help balance out a team having more junior developers than mid-level to senior developers. She is a stronger backend developer than frontend, and is comfortable in the Rails development stack. She has mainly worked on the Mass Rostering for the League Teams project, which included: printable rosters and contacts sheets, orphaned persona with User Service roles, and limiting the…

Is Standardized Testing Still Effective In College Admissions? Michelle Obama once said, “If my future were determined just by my 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…

Two types of scoring frequently found on these tests include norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. Philip Harris, Bruce Smith, and Joan Harris, retired educators of various school levels in Indiana, define norm-referenced tests, or, in a way, ranking tests, as tests that give students a percentile based off of others taking the same test at that time. Criterion-referenced tests score students, usually on a scale, based on how many questions they answer correctly (Harris…

She states that standardized testing resulted from the No child left behind bill enacted by congress that aimed at ensuring that all children in America would attain free elementary education. Although the author was at the forefront of advocating for this system, she is now opposed to it. The testing system according to the author has been used as a means to close down schools and judge both performance of students and teachers without taking into account other factors. Ravitch states that this…

A wise man by the name of Albert Einstein once said, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its 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…

"Believing we can improve schooling with more tests is like believing you can make yourself grow taller by measuring your height" (Students Against Testing). All students that attend a public school in the United States are required to take standardized tests starting in third grade. Then those students have to take at least two a year until they enter high school, and once in high school students have to continue taking the same type of tests along with other standardized tests such as AP tests…

The Effects of Standardized Testing in Education Standardized testing is not a reasonable measurement of student comprehension. The material that students should be learning has been manipulated into a score rather than knowledge of the material. Education itself is now solely based off of tests and not if the students know the material or even know skills that will help them out of school. The school system is no longer teaching students, they are only providing students with enough…