Standardized Testing Since the 1920's when "intelligence tests" were introduced through the 1960's when the development of aggregated data on student achievement began standardized testing has played an important role in U.S education. ... Basically, what that means, is standardized tests along with other tests ends up to be too much testing. Too much testing can result in stress and under stress students cannot perform their best. ... This takes a lot of stress off the student because they are not being pressured to do something that is so hard to work at. ... No such pressure to p...

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When a teenager's stress the highest? ... "A survey by the American psychological association found that nearly half of all teens said school pressures, due to the abundant amount of test preparation, stressed them.... Most people wouldn't believe that most cases of stress are from academics, and not bullying. ... The stress and anxiety that comes from standardized tests can sometimes cause permanent psychological damage. ... It causes severe stress, sometimes causing psychological harm. ...

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Stress can come from the work environment as well. ... Test questions were made easier, and questions asked in class were answered by the instructor while the athlete received the credit. ... The stress of the company is on my shoulders and I have to prove myself to him now more than ever. ... Stress is apart of life, and students need to cope with the pressures of working and going to school at the same time. ...

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Are standardized tests effective? ... Most schools that are involved in standardized testing make their teachers teach to the test. ... Standardized testing is any form of testing where the students are tested on the same test questions in order to get proper data to analyze the student's' ability. ... It doesn't tell how smart a student is because some people don't work well under pressure and stress" and "Standardized tests do not test a student's knowledge whatsoever; they test memory. ... Students say that the test promotes cheating and memorizing test m...

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Personally when I was 12 the only examinations that I experience were simple Math and English tests. ... The amount of stress that is put on the children as they grow up is exponential as the year's progress. ...

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This process allows for the test makers to see if the test really tests what they say it does and to be able to set up the scoring tables. ... Standardized tests can be giving to show growth in students" knowledge in a content area or what that test tests. ... The tests are being used for the wrong propose. ... That is not a fair way to judge how well a teacher is at his or her job and it is unwarranted stress for that teacher. ... The tests should be used to feed instruction. ...

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There is a great disconnect between students and teachers as evidenced by the gap between student and teacher in the frame; we put a majority of stress and responsibility on the shoulders of students to test well and the results of standardized testing is a great factor in what happens to a school, regardless of how accurately the testing reflects the true abilities of a teacher or student. ... Perhaps our reliance on testing to represent that everything is not quite accurate and a better method can be found, though there is still a great stress upon the shoulders of teachers and students. Du...

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Stress effects the body in so many ways health is a big one, to avoid the stress you avid the stressor. ... I'm worried about tomorrow's test." ... Children in the third grade are too young to be experiencing this kind of stress, this is the grade in which the standardized testing begins. ... Children should be taught how to learn and not taught to deal with the anxiety they are likely to endure caused from the stress of passing a test. ... Where a good school passes this test and the bad school fails. ...

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Why are the majority of grades focused on test taking? ... A student should not be tested on the time it takes them to complete a test. ... The last reason why grades should not mean as much as they do is because of the major stress level that rises in kids when grades come around. I know kids (2 actually) who have committed suicide because of stress. ... They are worthless because they test kids who suck at taking tests. ...

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State tests should be an option for each student who decides to participate. State tests can be a hassle and sometimes depressing. ... They can take the tests and see which levels they need to improve on. This helps but if the child does not need to stress or feel the need to improve their grades then they don't have to take the test. ... Therefor the teenager can test their progress optionally. ...

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Many say that more homework causes more stress on students and families. ... Standardized test should not be a useful measure, and for elementary school kids more homework is not associated with doing better in school. There are studies that show a slight relationship between homework and test scores. ... There is no positive outcome of more homework except more stress on the child. ... Teachers should think back to when they were students and the stresses they had to go through. ...

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As a college student it is evident that each and every person experiences stress. ... Stress is defined as "Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way." (http://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-symptoms-causes-and-effects.htm) Stress can affect the way you eat, sleep, respond to situations and the way you function everyday. Everyone is different with the way they cop with their stress habits. ... Your body needs the energy and carbs in order to work at such long and quick speeds, especially weeks before final...

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In it, elementary teachers must pass a "rigorous" state test in all subject matter in order to get certified. ... The provisions include funding to create, publish, and administor the test, the cost to help teachers meet these requirements, and the cost to employ overseers to ensure the tests are conducted in a "scientific manner"(Lewis 2003). ... She begins by showing the costs (both obvious and not so obvious), and then stresses how underfunded most states already are. ... Using this example shows an obvious potentially failed fortune of mass teacher testing across the nation. ... She ...

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Students must also increase in theirs test scores in order to be promoted to the next level. ... He claims that the schools and the teachers go into a lot of stress having the students become proficient in their academic subjects (Rapoport, Tenth 134). ... She claims that schools headboard plans out the testing dates for the students, being a monthly test throughout the whole school year. Goodman explains that the teachers and the students get pressured on that by the time they take the state exam they are stressed out (Goodman, Teachers 264-5). ... Goodman explains that by taking so many tes...

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When missing classes time after time students begin to lose a sense of wanting to continue, which means class work becomes hard to keep up with, homework becomes harder to complete and tests are even harder to pass. To cope with the not being prepared for the tests, many students just do not show upon test day earning a zero as a grade. ... Short-term stress decrease is gained cutting those selective classes while a greater deal of stress is obtained from academic difficulties." ... Umberson, Reczek and Liu. (2008) found that students with more secure attachments are more likely to persist in ...

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It doesn't matter for you, whether you have a quiz, test or something. ... What about tests, quizzes, or projects??? ... Also, if you have a quiz or a test (I have no idea why, but it looks like teachers just love to gives tests on Fridays) and you can't concentrate on it, it's obvious that you are not going to get anything near a perfect grade. A few Fridays with tests and you can say "good-bye" to your good grades. ... Then Monday it would be like a fresh, less stress start, you would be all ready to go into "the studying world". ...

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Bush stresses teacher quality and the recruitment of qualified teachers in this Act. ... Within this policy every school will be given a national test annually to provide to each student. This test will consist of information that every student is expected to know and comprehended up to that level. These tests will make the schools accountable for the performance of every student and the improvement of the school as a whole. ... Also the results of the testing must be broken down into certain categories: poverty, race and ethnicity, disability, and limited English proficiency so that no ...

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They select over achievers who have high grade point averages and high test scores. ... When it comes to test scores not everyone are good test takers. ... Rather you pass a test should not determine rather you are smart or dumb. ... A lot of the times students get so stressed out before the exams that their brain crashes when it is actually time to take it. ... There are also some people who do not understand anything in the entire course but they end up passing their college placement tests. ...

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Students are forced to memorize multiplication tables to pass test and check offs. According to the National Education Association (NEA) not much has changed in regards to teaching for memorization and to pass a test. ... She reports that much of the stress comes from 'the idea that we are not doing what's best for kids,' adding, 'the anxiety can lead you to question the profession you are dedicated to.' ... 'We must get the testing scores increased. Everything is overshadowed by one high-stakes test.'...

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Finland achieves the same educational success, without causing the student and their family the high stress and pressure that the South Korean system induces. ... Finland does not do any assessments or testing of their students until they finish secondary school at age sixteen. ... The U.S. testing system could be reformed by schools or states, as long as the main goals were being accomplished. ... The U.S. should discontinue testing until children are older as officials do in Finland. ... There has been worldwide academic testing which proves that American students compare ...

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This helps the kids think quickly and hopefully help them get ready for tests. ... This can be used for a review for a test or exam, or even at the end of the week to debrief. ... After they analyze the students formulate a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. ... Then the students are stresses to figure out the "new" problem. ... Students should be given the opportunity to form their own hypothesis and design an experiment to test the hypothesis. ...

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Would you be able to have a normal and a prosperous life without having an education? I think most people would not be able to have one without education. Education plays a critical and most important role in our lives. We must dedicate most of our time to education in order to have a stable and a b...

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The NCLB act creates stressful school environments for schools by mandating that standardized testing weighs more than student work, increases paper work for the classroom teacher, and has shown few improvements in education overall. ... The Act also makes it look as if the school systems now are all about test grades [OBr13] [Deb09]. Every meeting that teachers have are about to get test grades higher. However, what good are test grades being higher if the student did not learn anything on the test and the teacher gives them the answer to improve AYP so that the school can get extra federal...

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If a teacher does everything for the child, he or she will be comfortable by doing nothing; on the contrary, if the teacher does absolutely nothing and delegates all the responsibility to the student, they will become overwhelmed and stressed, therefore, not learning as much as they can. ... When I was a mentor to my freshman, I stressed the fact that they should be themselves, while also teaching them not to judge others just because they are different. ... When assessing my students, I will most likely give out pre-tests to see how much the students know about the subject we are about to lea...

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Many late nights were spent studying with the coffee pot brewing, and the caffeine rushing through their body giving them a temporary high so they could stay awake to cram for the test or finish the essay that was due the next day. ... They stress themselves out so bad that eventually it all catches up with them and the students realize what they are doing to themselves and turn their life around, or they just never learn and they drop out of school. ... As a college education is getting more expensive every year it is becoming very common for college students to have added stress with the...

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