The education system is an important pillar in the lives of many people, especially those who want to become successful members of society. ... Some of these tests have more influence on a student's success than others, and these are identified as high-stakes or standardized tests. ... While the government insists that standardized tests are a necessary part of education many others feel that the tests are unfair and biased representations of schools' success. ... In an article about the impact of high-stakes testing, Natasha Segool explains the process of collecting data through sta...

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(Sanders, Horn) Many people believe that the results of standardized test scores are too abstract to do any real good for the students and the school system. ... If you wanted to know how to make teaching methods better through the results of tests, administering the test at the end of the year makes no sense. ... However, Testing by itself will not improve education. ... (Davey, Neill) What we should be doing is not so much looking at the standardized test but look at the system and students that we are testing. ... More time and effort should spent on how, when, and who these tests shoul...

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As society becomes more and more advanced, it tends to quantify people into numbers; SAT's and ACT's are all just ways that society wants us to focus towards preparing us for the higher education that comes after these tests. However, focusing on these standardized tests cannot be ultimate way to becoming better people. ... With these small examples, Kozol appeals to the pathos of the reader by bringing up examples that most people can relate to. ... Illiterate people lose their right to an identity. ... This creates a group of mediocre literate or even illiterate people where the ...

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Administrators focus more on dress codes and violence prevention, than they do on test scores and how we compare to other countries. ... The commission findings generated recommendations to improve the content of education and raise the standards of student achievement, particularly in testing, increase the time spent on education and provide incentives to encourage more individuals to enter the field of education as well as improving teacher preparation. ... The plan also introduced the Regents Minimum Competency Tests, which requires a student to pass tests in five major categories; math, sc...

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Therefore we teachers should not base our expectations of students on IQ test scores. ... Field-dependent students tend to see patterns as a whole and do better with people and social relationships. ... Interference theory helps explain why people forget. ... It is from Educational Psychology, we formulate and adjust some of our views toward tests. ... Each type of test item has optimal uses, advantages, and disadvantages. ...

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"The world's greatest problems do not result from people being unable to read and write. They result from people in the world-from different cultures, races, religions, and nations being unable to get along and to work together to solve the world's problems.... A high-stakes test is a test with important consequences for whom is being tested. ... The important goal of using high-stakes testing is to measure and improve student and school system performance is laudable, it is also important that such tests are scored properly too. Mostly public schools use hiigh-stakes testing be...

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Schools are no longer teaching to the student, they are teaching to test. This brings into play the commercialization of education and the amount of money that is being spent on the current standardized tests and teaching for these tests. ... Instead, these schools are handed a curriculum that is created by a group of people who believe they know best. ... Another point to be made regarding the standardized testing is that these tests cost money. ... In the same form, students need to be educated, not prepared for a test. ...

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She has a big juicy brain full of original and authentic beliefs, but probably for some people she is extremely annoying. ... At the moment she enters to the room, she notices it is full of people like her. People who cannot sit still, people who have to move to think. ... It does not make sense to test everyone the same and to expect everyone to do the same. ... There are abounding aspects that this kind of tests cannot measure. ...

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Within America there is a large population of peoples who have been, and continue to be, oppressed in this land of the free. ... These people often argue that everyone receives the same education and opportunity to succeed in society. ... Testing bias is yet another aspect that leads to inequality in the educational system. On average, minorities score lower than whites on standardized tests. ... However, cultural specific content of tests, ...

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Generally, children are sent to school in order to learn from the education theyre receiving and are then evaluated through tests and assignments. ... The curriculum does not teach students; it tests how well they can memorize terms and formulas rather than testing skills that pertain to the student. ... This statement is portrayed inHe describes a hypothetical scenario involving two children taking an intelligence test, otherwise known as an IQ test. ... These IQ tests predict school performance, but are only an indifferent predictor of performance in a profession outside of formal schooling ...

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THE PROBLEM RATIONALE High performance in every test is one of the major goals of every teacher and every learning institution. ... The researcher had encountered many students who obtained low scores in periodical test. Specifically in grade 7 class of SY 2015-2016, during the first periodical test, out of 89 students 39 got a score of 20 and below from 50-item test. ... Using the mastery exercises, Grade 7 teachers can explore other supplementary exercises in Mathematics for the improvement of test results. ...

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Most will agree the public needs an educational system beneficial to all, but many people have different opinions on how this can be done and what a beneficial educational system is. There are groups that say division says privatize education, and another group of people who believe charter-schools are not the solution to this problem. ... It is shown that through longer school days and unique lesson plans Charter-schools showed greater test scores and student graduation rates than your average public school. ... The studies shown in An inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman show that ...

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Thereafter, teaching became a highly desired, independent and creative profession, but only people with a Master´s degree could teach in Finnish basic and high school. ... Fourth, Finland´s educational system does not find it necessary to test the school and the students with standard assessments. The main reasons for this are that they prioritize individuality and creativity, so they test each student on his individual progress. ... Furthermore, they want to avoid teaching exclusively for the tests and competition among students, because they think that testing must positively affect the st...

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Most bilingual educators were opposed to the program at first, but two years later test scores had risen from the 19 percentile to the 40 percentile for limited-English-proficient students. ... Opposer of the change, Kenji Hakuta told reporters that "the scores were meaningless because the tests themselves were designed for native English speakers". ... Eventually, people started to catch on that the best way to teach any language is to teach in that language. ...

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The coordination of effort and encouragement provided by these groups of research-minded people appear most valuable. ... From the data of 128 college men and women enrolled in the first quarter of principles of accounting, Larsen (40) developed four multiple-regression equations, using the following as predictive factors: age; sex; veteran status; size of high school attended; rank in high school class; size of senior class; cumulative high school average; previous study of bookkeeping; grade point average during first quarter in college; grades in college freshmen composition, business mat...

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Suddenly, a vast library of knowledge was at the fingertips of many student as well as access to a network of people throughout the world that enhanced communication and the exchanging of ideas. ... The findings for West Virginia's statewide initiative are as follows: • The more students participated in computer education, the more their test scores rose on standardized testing. ... All students' test scores rose on the standardized tests with lower achieving students rising the most. ... Advances in brain studies and cognitive sciences have changed people's view and under...

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For example, the establishment of the No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB) enables the assessment of public schools through standardized testing. ... In David Hursh's (Date) article, it mentioned "how testing policies further legitimize program differences by forcing schools with low test scores (those composed primarily of students of color and students living in poverty) to institute more regimented methods of instruction"" (p. 157). This quote means that the testing policies enforced in public schools are making it more difficult for low-income students to achieve higher test scores, bec...

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We can measure this in various ways, but, naturally, I come back to standardized test scores, a common indicator of academic success. ... With 65 nations participating in the PISA testing, these are hardly numbers to write home about. ... This relationship is similar across reading and science tests, and in schools across the nation. ... Diversification also helps the social aspect of education that has been lost in the standardized testing craze. Students who attend school with students from different socioeconomic backgrounds have a broader and more nuanced worldview and are more prepared ...

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Van Heile levels, meeting students where they are at Diagnosing strengths and weaknesses Many people believe that individualizing instruction means adapting learning for students experiencing academic difficulties or cognitive delays. ... One popular form of pre-assessment is a diagnostic test. The diagnostic test will reveal what students already know and what their strengths and weaknesses are. ... In addition to diagnostic testing, observations of student behavior can reveal student needs. ... See appendix for an example a diagnostic test, observation checklist, and interest inven...

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This would be a plus toward the schools that continue to have problems with students scoring low on their standardized test. ... Most schools believe that more time in the required classes will improve standardized test scores, instead of having them involved in the arts. ... In today's society, people have to be careful about what they spend money on in order to allow their family to survive. ... In response, people in this society have decided that the 'arts' are not the most important attributes in our current economy. ... Current communities have started to thrive more on t...

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Although some research shows that homeschool students perform better on standardized tests than students enrolled in public schools, these figures are invalid. According to the article the standardized test were only given to students who volunteered to take them it did not represent the homeschool community as a whole as does the standardized test given to public school students. ... There is no system in place were they use any form of tests to indicate the level of proficiency that the children are scoring at other than the volunteer based surveys done by Pro homeschooling advocates. ... T...

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Many people do not mind the concept of McDonaldization. ... Control is appended to all the people who enter the world of McDonalds. The same applies to people who work in such structures. ... Professors only have to change questions in the test one time in the semester, but this is by maximum facilitated for them as well. Publishers provide teachers with textbooks, which already include the tests with different types of questions and answers. ...

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Minorities and people in poverty are educated unequally. ... The educational system in America was established to prepare people for industrial manufacturing. ... Get tough policies and zero tolerance gave way to high-stakes testing, alienating students that needed the most help learning. ... Giving students high-stakes tests is extremely unfair; especially for those children in poverty who may be wondering when the next meal is coming. ... The children are not at fault for being uneducated, the people in charge of the state of the educational system are the policy makers that ostracized child...

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Whether characteristics or experiences in life have much more influence on people's personality and development has became a public focus. Some people believe that natures play the most important role. ... According to scientific research, it can be proved that gene significantly contributes to the nature from people's forefather, and even the nature is very stable when people grow up. ... However, society is full of tests and trials, the cultivation will result in fragile personality of children. ... It is impossible that young people can't get the most training and learn how t...

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Through assessments of the children's reading and mathematic abilities, I realized that many of the students were performing below their grade levels; this was evident in their low standardized test scores. I was given only three months to help the students improve their test scores and overall abilities. ... Nevertheless, I believe it will be my responsibility to get the most significant people in a child's life involved in every aspect of my classroom. ... I will be effective in my work as an educator by involving the most influential people in my student's lives, thei...

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