The Criterion

The second book assigned to me for my capstone leadership book is Leading with data: Pathways to improve your school. This topic is not a new subject to me with having read about data for several classes here at ACE. Data has never been so relevant in the field of education. Data is important to make changes on campus or illustrate results that must essential for schools to stay in operation. Every year schools look at data and decide what areas they need to improve upon if they want to make…

1. The name of the assessment was originally an acronym for the states that were originally included in the assessment, which were “Wisconsin (WI), Delaware(D), and Arkansas(A)”, but Arkansas “dropped out”, so it later became the “World-class Instructional Design and Assessment”. Now it is just known by “WIDA” (Mission & the WIDA Story). The WIDA is only given in English, I could not find any information about the assessment being done in any other language, which I believe is because the…

Standardized tests in relation to teachers is being taken too far; the extent some teachers are taking go as far as quitting jobs they love because they don’t get to teach what they want, or feel the need, to teach because of extreme amounts of standardized test studying. Stacie Starr was a teacher, who had been selected in 2014 as the “Top Teacher”. Shortly after this award was presented, she announced on a television show she was to quit as a teacher because her job entitled spending too much…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

Introduction Standardized testing is an integral part of school systems across the nation, as many subjects require some sort of assessment to gauge a student’s comprehension of the material. Many times standardized tests are used as tools to determine whether students make it to the next grade level, receive credit, or if they are to be accepted to another program/school, for example college and graduate programs. Even though it is common for students to experience some sort of testing,…