The Girl He Left Behind

evaluates the curriculum initiative of Direct Interactive Instruction (DII) and its effectiveness in attaining higher scores on state level assessments in math and English. Clement Middle School took on this challenge in hindsight of the No Child Left Behind Initiative in which closing the gap in levels of student performance was seen as the ultimate tool in combating successful academic outcomes. “Educators are always called to consider something new, something that enables students to…

the test. A standardized test is any examination that is administered and scored in a predetermined and standard manner (Popham). Young children all over the United States are now required to take standardized tests according to the No Child Left Behind Act…

discussed if students should or shouldn’t be scored for testing. Scholars have been exposed to standardized tests regularly over the years that they are in school. This is because of the laws which have been passed by Congress. Such law as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the law has directed to a rage of standardized testing, altering weeks and even months of educational time into assessment prep in many institutes through the state. Judgments concerning the appraisal of institutes and scholars are…

Are Standardized Test Beneficial To Anyone? Are students failing the test, or are the tests failing the students? In the year 1991 an average high school student took an averaged of anywhere from eighteen to twenty-one standardized test throughout the course of their academic career. I can only imagine that those numbers and the stakes associated with the test have increased since then. We rely on test to tell us so much information, but is that test doing students any good? Personally I don’t…

In 2002, former President George W. Bush signed The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 into law with bi-partisan support. While signing NCLB into law, Former President Bush said, "Today begins a new time in public education... America 's school will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results" (Olson, 2002). As a reauthorization and improvement of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, NCLB had a mission to increase school and teacher accountability in order to narrow…

Standardized testing is very well used by education boards to test students achievements all throughout the nation. These rigorous tests are given at various points in a student’s schooling. Standardized testing was introduced as apart of the No Child Left Behind Act which passed Congress in 2001 and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. According to an article written in 2008, it states “High-stakes testing and mandated assessments have become the primary vehicles for…

Standardized Testing A standardized test is any test that is administered and scored following a predetermined standard procedure. There are two main types of standardized tests: proficiency tests and achievement tests. Standardized tests predict how well students perform at any subsequent educational level or space. The most common examples are the SAT and the ACT, which attempt to predict how well secondary students will perform in college. However, when assessing the effectiveness of a school…

difference between white and black graduation rates for students. Becker (2015), states that although the governor in the region flaunted the Wisconsin as a place that has made immense educational gains, black students for the most continued being left out (Cook & Ludwig, 1998). A lot of studies show that Wisconsin has several troubling patterns which are particularly unchanged. Based on the results which were released in 2015 by NAEP in a number of tests which are referred to as the report…

Standardize test is a waste of time and money. Standardize testing really kicked off when George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001. Standardized test originated from China but did not take full effect until George W. Bush signed the NCLB. When it first came out it multiple choice and short answer but later on it came into the open ended question. School should eliminate standardize test. First,President Ronald Reagan called for the abolition of the U.S. Department of…

There have been debates across the nation as to whether or not standardized testing should be abolished. Standardized testing is used to not only guide the teacher through their curricular content, but also used to determine whether a student will proceed to the next grade level, retain them to their current level, or determines their possibility of graduating. Standardized testing should be abolished due to the negative impacts it has placed on the social/cultural aspect of schools, teachers…