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. Not only has standardized testing created a whole new style of teaching, called 'teaching to the test', it has created an increase in the stress levels of students, teachers, and administrators. ... In an article about the impact of high-stakes testing, Nata...

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The definition of the word test is "a basis for evaluation or judgment." ... 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 should be given to rather then focusing on the test itself....

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In the article "The High-Stakes Testing..." ... Orfield and Wald suggest that the reform movement of high stakes testing has worsened the educational problem; that tests are unfair to minority students, "undermine teachers," and refuse high school graduation to students who do not pass a one-shot test (1). ... Also, Orfield and Wald point out that high stakes testing narrows the curriculum by teaching to the test. ... Many students are taught how to pass the test, but do not comprehend the material. ... "The High-Stakes Testing Mania Hurts Poor and Minority Students The Most: Testing, Test...

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Standardized Tests: Inaccurate and Unfair Evaluations While previous generations of American students have had to sit through tests, never have the tests been given so frequently and never have they played such a prominent role in schooling (Kohn 1). ... However, standardized tests are inaccurate and unfair evaluations. ... This essay will establish that these tests are both unfair and inaccurate. ... "Smith and Rottenberg report (1991) that mandated testing at the elementary school level results in (a) reduced time for instruction, (b) neglect of non-tested curriculum content, and (...

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A credible test is defined as actually measuring what the test says it measures. ... Standardized tests do not offer either of these achievement qualities. ... Standardized tests are not a high quality predictor of college success. ... Through the comparison of subject specific tests and GPA to broad standardized tests, it is clear that the principles of our education system must be redefined. ... Based on the feedback from the student's test results, they have the opportunity of improving themselves by studying the specific area's of the test. ...

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NCLB mandated high-stakes tests for all states, and imposed a carrots-and-sticks strategy of rewards and punishments if test scores were not consistently high. ... Standardized tests will continue to decrease the class time spent on history and science and increase the number of skilled test-takers who aren't any better at math and reading, despite No Child Behind legislation and its promise of improvement through standardized tests (Ravitch, 2011). ... Schools with at-risk students become institutions for test takers. ... Students and teachers have learned that their jobs and futures ar...

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In Eric Boese's "Standardized Tests: Shouldn't we be Helping our Students?"", Boese uses empirical data and logos to express that contrary to what the test scores are showing, "students aren't getting any smarter, just better test takers." ... While test taking skills are important, it is pointless to spend "eight to ten hours a week in test-preparation drills."" ... However, even better tests cannot outweigh the most important negative impact of standardized tests. ... Also, since "tests are used multiple times," teachers can avoid the "cheating " title by simply teaching the e...

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China used these tests in order to test the knowledge of citizens who were applying for leadership job positions. ... (Dan Fetcher) Standardized testing developed into an accessible way to test a considerable amount of student's knowledge about what they have been taught throughout the school year. ... In Texas 2003 the state spent up to around $9 million dollars just on these tests. ... In Hawaii 2004-2005 their test architect Harcourt made an error in their system which led to grading over 98,000 of these test because the scores students were receiving said that they had submitted a ...

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In Patrick O'Malley's essay "More Testing, More Learning," he claims that frequently test improves students' learning. As O'Malley points out the majority of college professors only take two test to challenge students' ability in class, midterm and final. ... Considering O'Malley's point of view I should say frequent test is not as good as he says. ... This frequent testing might eliminate that but as I said before it might continue on procrastinating and let the exams pass by and wait for the next one to make it up and it never happens. I agree that fre...

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Some of society seeks to abolish standardized testing. ... All test are made fair! ... These standardized test set the standards for all students to reach and break all boundaries; still, those that oppose this testing claim that these tests are racially discriminatory. ... Possibly this is the cause for the different test scores between children of different socioeconomic classes and not the test itself. On the other hand, those who oppose standardized testing blame the test for socially and racially discrimination and perhaps they are looking for the wrong source of the problem. ...

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Educators motivated by impending sanctions imposed on those with low-test scores have tailored their instruction to match the test; they have lowered student expectations and narrowed down the school curriculum to the subject matter on the test. The need to make test performance the first priority forced many teachers to push topics and activities that did not appear on the test to the end of the school year, after testing is finished. ... The results of a national survey of teachers by researchers at Boston College documented that over a hundred hours of instruction time is spent on test-ta...

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An increase in the number of certified teachers and exit tests are vital for students in today's society in order to succeed. ... School systems brainwash their students into believing that as long as they have the information memorized on test day, they will not need to know it again. ... In today's society, teachers have learned to just teach the test. Teachers need to learn that the test should come from what is taught in the classroom, not what is taught in the classroom from the test. ... In order to change school systems, districts need to start by increasing the number of...

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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. ... 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. ... With the commercialization of mass testing, teachers do not have time to have creativity in a classroom. ...

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Banks have made a profound impact on my view towards multicultural education and the nation's current trend of standardization and high-stakes testing. ... 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 because he federal and state goovernment is demanding it. ... In fact, the high stakes testing and standardization of ...

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Therefore we teachers should not base our expectations of students on IQ test scores. ... It is from Educational Psychology, we formulate and adjust some of our views toward tests. Tests are constructed to elicit evidence of student learning in relation to the instructional objectives. ... A table of specifications helps in the planning of tests that correspond to instructional objectives. ... Each type of test item has optimal uses, advantages, and disadvantages. ...

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This became the beginning of the standardized test era in schools. ... A recent article addressed the affect these standardized tests have on students' college success. Due to the close correlation between the standardized tests and school funding, teachers are under immense stress to ensure their students perform well on the tests (4). This causes a majority of instructional time to be spent on only the material covered by the tests. ... Students become test oriented due to the multiple choice nature of the tests rather than critical thinkers. ...

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A standard curriculum exists somewhat but in the case of Texas in past years, prior to the 2002-2003 school year, the TAAS test was the standard for grading the school as well as the student. Therefore, the average classroom was filled with discussion, review, and practice TAAS tests the entire year. Schools feared the TAAS school-wide results that were mailed out to parents with the students" report card and students were sick and tired of reviewing for the TAAS test. Practice tests, given throughout the year in the same manner as the real test offered incentives for high scores and goodies l...

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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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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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Experimental research was evident in this study through the authors stating hypotheses, randomly selecting participants who fit the criteria for the study, and using the pre/post-test data as a statistical measure. ... During the eight weeks of the research a pre-test (10 open ended questions/ 25 multiple choice), post-test (12 production questions/ 42 identification questions), and survey (25 questions) was given. ... ANCOVA was used as measurement for the data measuring pre-test/post-test, peer tutoring vs. traditional instruction, co-teaching vs. non-teaching, and students with or without...

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These tests were used for no more than to compare students' educational performances to one another. ... With the growing number of mandated tests by education officials, unfortunately more "schooling" was involved. ... Finland holds a belief that standardized tests are not necessary in measuring a student's academic success. ... Regardless of standardized tests scores, students are meant to be educated. ... Schooling today continuously emphasizes the use of standardized tests to designate the future educational role of a student. ...

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Once possessing some of the highest test scores in math, science, and literature, America currently fights to reacquire the scores it once had. ... The government has taken drastic measures to improve these test scores and to prove to all Americans that this generation's education is, in fact, a grade A education. ... The board of education is lowering school budgets and striving for higher test scores. ... Test scores increased by 49% in math, 63% in reading, and 36% in writing" (Kronkosky 2). According to these results, the more time spent in art classes the more the standardized t...

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Bias in educational materials used, teachers' expectations, tracking, testing bias, linguistic differences, and lack of positive role models all combine to offer a less than comprehensive education. ... Until then, it is difficult to accurately grade a child on a test subject given in Classroom of America 6 the English language. ... Testing bias is yet another aspect that leads to inequality in the educational system. On average, minorities score lower than whites on standardized ...

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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 mathematics, and introduction to business; and college entrance test scores. ... The analysis of variance was used as a test ...

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For the educational system standardized testing is appealing but it measures students by a common yardstick, which should not exist. ... 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. "The modern testing movement came out of the effort at the turn of the last century...to ascertain society's 'mental defectives' and sort them from those of superior intelligence who would occupy society's elite strata" (Sacks 2010). ... Physiologists made an experiment t...

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