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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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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Standardized test scores play a huge role for students planning to attend college. ... While many argue that higher test scores predict student success in college, others feel test scores are poor predictors of student success. ... Standardized tests cannot predict a student's work ethic. ... Standardized tests are "given to individuals, not groups, and helping one another is regarded as a serious offense. ... Standardized tests cannot assess a student's level of professional behavior. ...

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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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The Educational Testing Service (ETS) adopted the SAT I back in 1944. ... The original test, known as the "Army Alpha" was an IQ test administered by the United States Army to evaluate the intelligence of new recruits. Following the war, the Army Alpha was adapted and transformed for the purpose of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always scor...

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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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The CAHSEE is a test that improves student achievement in public high schools. ... This test is broken up into two parts which are English and Math. A motivation of the CAHSEE is that when the students pass the test, they can prove they can understand 10th grade English and 8th grade math while a consequence is that if students do not pass this test they cannot get a diploma for high school graduation. ... " This is an important quote because it is encouraging students to not give up or worry if they don't pass this test sophomore year because they have enough opportunities to try t...

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Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ... The best-known test that claims to measure academic aptitude is the Scholastic Aptitude Test. ... If the test measures things that are taught in school, that is usually a sufficient rationale for its content, but test like the Stanford- Binet and the Scholastic Aptitude test also try to test skills to include therefore involves inane direct way. ... The tests ar...

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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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The second category of academic dishonesty is basically stealing information for homework, tests, quizzes, etc. ... The 4th category is Plagiarism or copying on major papers or project as well as Dishonesty on a major test. ... The 2nd offense Consequences are no credit on tests, etc., referral to full Discipline Board, and probable expulsion. ... School, for me, isn't about grades and education it is a self-test. High school is there to test one's self to see how smart you really are and how smart you really can be. ...

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The child's doctor would be the most accurate way to have a child tested for developmental delays and other special needs. ... There are so many different assessments when it comes to testing for disabilities. ... Some examples of tests used for dyslexia would be like expressive one-word picture vocabulary tests or receptive one word picture vocabulary tests. For ADHD they have tests like the Connors Rating scale and Barklay ADD Rating scales. There are so many different tests for each disability and it provides a wide spectrum to focus on when trying to identify a disability in a child ...

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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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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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The high school also as an attendance rate of 92.9% and many students usually score above average on standardized tests. Sixty-five percent of Cumberland High School students took the SAT test and scored an average of 532 in math and 524 in verbal while the state average was 494 in each subject. Students at Cumberland High School are also given a series of assessment tests in the tenth grade focusing on mathematics, English language skills, and writing. Unfortunately, over 50% of Cumberland High students did not meet the standard in every area except for the writing conventions section in whic...

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Remedial education or basic skills is education designed to help students gain academic skills, needed to be placed at a college level. Providing students with remedial education has always been a widespread problem. In 1849, the University of Wisconsin was the first school to offer remedial educat...

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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. While there are exceptions, a general rule can be made that the lower the average income of a school, the lower the test scores will be. ... Diversification also helps the social aspect of education that has been lost in the standardized testing craze. ...

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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. They think that "teaching is the key element that makes a difference in what students learn in school – not externally set standards, standardised testing or alternative instructional programmes" (Sahlberg, 2012, p.7), this is why student's assessment is inserted as an integral part of the teaching-learning process...

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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 Charter schools have higher test scores because they drop students that perform poorly on standardized tests. This means that as test rates grow the rate of students removed from the school grows with it as well creating a number that isn't exactly accurate. ...

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Chicago Renaissance 2010 set up test scores, attendance and graduation rates as the standards of accountability of every school, including CPS regular school. ... For charter schools, there is a special accountability policy, which all charter schools have to test accountability every five years, and failing schools will be closed. ... Furthermore, improving accountability for CPS schools is important for the reason that Chicago Renaissance 2010 has a policy of closing, consolidating, turn round and phasing out sixty to seventy CPS regular schools that are failed in the accountability tests. ....

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Academic penalties include such sanctions as assignment of a failing grade for a particular course requirement, or for the course itself, or for other tests or program assignments. ... In conclusion, with all of the effects of plagiarism, you would think the thought of doing it would make people stop, but it is a easier way out of an essay, quiz, or test, so people are going to still pursue plagiarism. ...

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Abolishing grades would also allow students to somehow break free from the restraints of conventionality and actually learn instead of just memorizing facts for a test and soon forgetting the information completely. ... Instead they rely on classes in which they can memorize facts, take the test, get the good grade, and move on, without really learning or retaining anything. ...

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The data will measure the influences student-led conference has student achievement on the Missouri Assessment Program test. ... A literature review, compiled by Desforges and Abouchaar (2003) identified that decades of research showed that the involvement of parents' results in higher grades, test scores, better attendance at school, increased motivation and increased self-esteem. ...

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