...Have you ever wondered while waiting to receive or even while taking a standardized exam, whether this method accurately measures one’s abilities? Well, this thought has definitely crossed my mind several times while preparing for major nationalized exams. As a student myself, I wanted to investigate the reasoning, and most importantly, the effectiveness of using standardized tests on students as a whole. My position is not of an expert, but rather of a concerned student who has taken many examinations throughout primary as well as secondary grade education. Standardized tests are examinations administered to all students in a grade level in a predetermined, standard manner. Over the years, the different types of nationalized tests have grown...
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...Should we keep using standardized tests to improve the education quality? Key words: standardized tests Introduction: On August, 2015, in the educational episodes Are Our Kids Strong Enough from BBC, 5 Chinese teachers, who are deft at standardized tests, taught 50 British students for 1 month. Consequently, Chinese-education-taught students’ test scores are averagely 15 points above other British students. Also, China, a country with a long tradition of standardized testing, topped all countries in the international rankings for reading, math, and science in 2009 when it debuted on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) charts (Dillon). With the triumph of Chinese education, people are suspecting whether...
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... a different type of test is becoming prominent in school systems. Standardized testing, examinations administered and scored in a standard manner (7), are taking over the school systems. Standardized tests administered to students are either aptitude tests or achievement tests. Aptitude tests predict student’s performance, like the common ACT and SAT that colleges frequently use; achievement tests evaluate teacher and school effectiveness (7). Although standardized tests are becoming significant in school curriculum, the results do not accurately represent student or teacher abilities....
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...Standardized Testing: Debunking the Myths Trestin M. Holmes Wiley College ENGL 1302 08 OL-English Composition Dr. Don Lawson November 17, 2014 Abstract The purpose of this research is to thoroughly examine the myths and preconceived notions pertaining to standardized testing and compare it with factual evidence. The criteria that will be used to accurately analyze this study will consist of evaluating the overall effectiveness of standardized testing in terms of student achievement, estimating how much of a financial burden standardized testing has proven to be in past years, and observing the adverse impact that standardized testing has had on children from a statistical & realistic standpoint. This will undoubtedly give insight on how much of a detriment standardized testing is in today’s society. Standardized Testing: Debunking the Myths What is Standardized Testing? A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner. Any test in which the same test is given in the same manner to all test takers is a standardized test. Thesis Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800’s and its use has skyrocketed since the induction of 200’2’s “No Child Left Behind Act”...
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...Effectiveness of Standardized Testing Ashley Norris Com 220 September 16, 2012 Katie Boswell Effectiveness of Standardized Testing Hayden, a second grader, always has had trouble taking tests. From the very first test that he took in kindergarten until now, Hayden has collapsed under the pressure of the test and has never performed at a standard that was acceptable to himself or his educators. Situations such as this one are far too common in our schools today. Many of the children, such as Hayden, have fallen through the cracks in our classrooms. This has caused many people to ask themselves what is going on and how can things be changed. For years, educators have relied on standardized testing to provide them with information on a student’s progress throughout the year. However, much has changed since standardized testing was introduced. Standardized testing no longer accurately depicts a student’s progress in school; therefore, other forms of testing must be implemented to give all students a fair chance. Throughout history educators have used standardized testing as the main tool to predict how our educational system is working. These tests have been used as a way to assess what a student has learned throughout the school year and to inform teachers and school officials about how the curriculum is working. In many cases, the tests are administered closer to the end of the school year. By doing this, it allows the teachers and school officials to assess...
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...Almagor, Lelac. "The Good in Standardized Testing." Boston Review 39.5 (2014): 6-9. OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson). Web. 24 Sept. 2014. The title of this article is “The Good in Standardized Testing”, but this article is not simply praising standardized testing. The author chose to narrow in on the effectiveness of standardized test as it relates to reading comprehension. Almagor claims that standardized test are good for letting schools and families know where their children stand compared to other children nationally. He also addresses the negative aspects of standardized test in saying “good reading” can’t be measured properly through multiple choice questions. It is clear that the author does recognize that standardized test can...
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...5/2/14 Standardized Testing These days, if a school's standardized test scores are high, people think the school's staff is effective. If a school's standardized test scores are low, they see the school's staff as ineffective. In either case, because educational quality is being measured by the wrong scale, those evaluations are apt to be in error. One of the main reasons that students' standardized test scores continue to be the most important factor in evaluating a school is deceptively simple. Most educators do not really understand why a standardized test provides a misleading estimate of a school staff's effectiveness, as well as education quality for students. Standardized test are not effective measurements of a student’s knowledge, they create negative impacts on curriculum, and they are racially, socially, and economically biased. A standardized test is any examination that's administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner. There are two major kinds of standardized tests: aptitude tests and achievement tests. “Standardized aptitude tests predict how well students are likely to perform in some subsequent educational setting (SAT-I /ACT), both of which attempt to forecast how well high school students will perform in college. But standardized achievement-test scores are what citizens and school board members rely on when they evaluate a school's effectiveness.” (Popham) One of the most important reasons that students’ performances on these tests should...
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...Another dilemma instead of focusing on how well the education for a certain school is doing, is instead focusing on how much money that school could be earning you. According to Winters, “Much has been made of the virtue of trying to run schools “like a business.” But public schools are not corporations (Winters 2012).” A great point is made with this statement, considering the point of public schools is to educate students that way they can succeed later in life, not to earn money for any specific person. That does not account for the people that help make the school succeed like educators and staff at the school. Standardized tests are a huge focus in public schools, but their effectiveness with finding out how much a student has learned...
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...School Boards and parents rely on standardized test scores to rate a schools and teachers effectiveness. Today the most common example of standardized testing are the SAT and the ACT both attempt to tell how proficient a student will do in college. On a national level these five tests are in use: California Achievement Tests, Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Metropolitan Achievement Tests, and Stanford Achievement Tests. What they are trying to do is to create assessment tools that permit someone to make a valid inference about the knowledge and/or skills that a given student possesses in a particular content area (ascd.org) (1). Basically, it is used to compare a student’s knowledge to other students across the...
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...How to balance Love and Studies Ang pagiging estudyante ay isang bagay na kailangan mong paglaanan ng oras at ng panahon .Alam natin na bilang kabataan marami pa tayong bagay na dapat na maranasan isa na nga dito ay pagkakaroon ng taong mamahalin o iibigin . paano nga ba natin ma babalanse ang pag ibig at pagaaral . Gawin mo siyang inspirasyon hindi distraksyon Sa edad na 10 – 17 nagsisimula ang pagkakaroon ng tinatawag na crush at mula dito unti unti umuusbong ang tinatawag na pagmamahal . Bilang kabataan nararapat lang na tingnan natin ang pag ibig bilang isang inspirasyon na magtuturo sa atin na pahalagahan ang pag aaral . Alamin ang prayoridad mo. Mahirap alamin ang kung ano uunahin mo lalo na kung parehong mahalaga sayo. Dapat mong isipin na ang pag aaral mo ang susuporta sa inyo pagdating ng panahon. Matuto kang balansehin ang oras mo. Hindi ka dapat mawalan ng oras sa pag aaral subalit mahirap ding mawalan ng oras sa taong mahalaga sayo. Kailangan mong hatiin ang oras mo hindi pwedeng sabay,dahil maaring may makulangan na magiging sanhi ng pagkasira ng isa sa dalawa. Kailangan mong mabuhay sa realidad. Isipin mo na hindi lahat ng bagay ay hanggang katapusan. Lahat ay nagbabago. Tanggapin ang katotohanan na hindi pwedeng pagsabayin ang pag aaral at pag ibig. Kailangan mag kahiwalay sila. Higit sa lahat, kailangan nyo ng bukas na pag uugnayan. Mag plano kayo ng oras sa isat isa kapag may problema sabihin mo sa kanya at ganun din sya sa iyo. Maiintindihan...
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...so for commercial products. The tests need not be elaborate, for example, switching an electronic or electrical system on and off a few times may be enough to catch some simple defects that would otherwise be encountered by the end user very soon after the product was first used. Tests typically include the following: Temperature variations Vibration tests Pressure Flexibility tests ESS can be performed as part of the manufacturing process or it can be used in new product qualification testing. An ESS system usually consists of a test chamber, controller, fixturing, interconnect and wiring, and a functional tester. These systems can be purchased from a variety of companies in the environmental test industry. The stress screening from this process will help find infant mortality in the product. Finding these failures before the product reaches the customer yields better quality and lower warranty expenses. Associated military terminology includes an operational requirements document (ORD) and on-going reliability testing (ORT).[2][3] Standardized Definitions and Methods[edit] 'The following is extracted from a paper on ESS testing prepared by the U.S. Air Force to provide standardized definitions and methods. The paper is available for unrestricted distribution by writing to OO-ALC/ENR, Hill AFB, Ut. 84056. Ask for OO-ALC Technical Note 01-2002, Environmental Stress Screening of Replacement and Repaired Components, Standardized Definitions and Process, by David...
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...over forty years, and through his vast experience he has shown that there are many different ways to test a student that will get the same results that a standardized test should be able to achieve (Vinck 2015). With Vinck’s professional background of fifty years, his ethos, clearly shows that he is able to show the audience of teachers and educational politicians that his opinion on standardized testing to be creditable. The logos of Vinck’s article, show the varying statistics of students and the variables that can cause stress to the students. Politicians believe that teachers are to blame for the lack of high test scores for standardized...
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...The two most talked about government programs on education are the No Child Left Behind under the Bush administration. That 2002 law required states to show yearly progress in the number of students who were proficient in English and math on standardized tests, although it allowed states to measure proficiency in their own ways. (Gabriel, 2011). THe other is President Obama's own signature education initiative, Race to the Top, similarly used federal money to leverage change that many Republicans had long endorsed -- charter schools and teacher evaluations that tied effectiveness in the classroom to tenure. (Gabriel, 2011). The pros of these policies, is that by tying federal money to them, that they appear to raise test scores among students on these standardized tests. Charter schools seem to raise education standards by the fact that most of them have specialized programs aimed at the government standards. I think the cons of these programs are that a good general overall education that children should get is ignored somewhat. In other words, teachers on concentrating more on teaching students so that they can do well on the standardized tests and ignore or gloss over other studies that give kids a well rounded education. These programs seem to be consistent with Cooperative Federalism, where they designed and funded programs, and then left their implementation to the states. (Levin-Waldman, 2012). The programs were designed by federal government, but the states were to...
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...Assessment in No Child Left Behind The Controversy over Standardized Testing and it’s Effects on Young Children Cynthia M. Kirchner Western Governors University Sherry Lawler HJT1 Task 1 #54425 Nature of the Controversy: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Accountability and Standardized/High-Stakes Testing No Child Left Behind (NCLB): is the newest iteration of a decades-old education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The original law provided funding to school districts to help low-income students. Today, NCLB holds Title I schools that receive this federal money accountable by requiring them to meet proficiency targets on annual assessments. Standardized or High-Stakes Testing: These are the tests that are administered by the individual states and consist of multiple choice and true/false questions. The tests are designed to evaluate students in the subject areas of mathematics and reading. These tests have been given to students in grades three through eight. The goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is that students will receive 100% proficiency level on these tests by 2014 Accountability: Accountability is the concept that each state set standards for the type and amount of information students know and learn. Children are tested yearly and the scores are reported to the government. Schools that need improvement are identified and they work over the next school year to raise the students’ test scores (Robertson, 2009) Nature of the Controversy: Accountability...
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...Effective administrators know that in order for their school to succeed they must convince their teachers’ to incorporate rigorous instructional approaches. One proven effective method is teacher reflection. Research has shown that the reflecting on lessons taught improves teaching (MacGregor, R., 2007). If teachers stop after every lesson and reflect on the effects of their lesson, whether it was engaging, interesting, purposeful they can get to know they students needs. Teachers should assess their own practices when students do not perform as expected. Part of growing as a teacher is reflecting on what is working or not working for your students. The effectiveness of a teacher is measured by student outcome. The National Board for professional Teaching (NBPTS) established five key beliefs that are the base of teacher effectiveness (NBPTS, 2002). They are as follows: 1. Teachers are committed to students and learning. 2. Teachers...
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