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). ... Students become test oriented due to the multiple choice nature of the tests rather than critical thinkers. ... According to "The Implications of Teacher Effectiveness Requirements for Initial Teacher Education Reform " quality teachers are defined as ...

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Furthermore it taught the students good personality traits. ... The program also prepared the students for a standardize test that they must take at the completion of the program. ... Some of the discussions included teaching the students how to be respectful and what good personality traits were. ...

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Miss Narwin's class can be considered boring because she never does anything different except for the "official" things such as reading, writing, test-taking, and discussions. In fact, a typical day in Miss Narwin's class can easily consist of just reading, testing, reading, and testing. ... Another demonstration of her invariant personality was when Philip's refused to stop humming the National Anthem. ...

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Disappointedly he said "Sadly, Egyptian university graduates are capable only of waiting for orders and executing them; no thinking, no arguing, no questioning; and not even dialoguing: a personality that does not and cannot create or think." ... One of the remarkable events occurred in 2008 was when the Egyptian Ministry of Education decided to give the teachers tests which include 100 multiple choice questions about general knowledge, social sciences and their own specialization. The results were published in Al-Ahram weekly newspaper and were really a shame as 90% of randomly chosen group o...

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They, themselves, are graded and tested to make sure they follow a similar method. ... At an early age, they are taught to sit in a class full of their peers, write down the information the teacher writes on the board, and produce the facts they learned come test time. ... Teachers are both the person who must help determine a child's personality through their strengths and weaknesses, and "oppress- students by treating them all as one. ...

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An ethical issue that arises from the aim of education to transform the children into components of the economic system is that it chips and breaks the child character and personality. ... The study showed that 98% of kindergarten children had a genius level in divergent thinking, same children were tested again at the age of 8 to 10, and again at ages 13 to 15 their scores dropped drastically with aging. ...

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I have had the opportunity to evaluate and assess various strengths and weaknesses in my behavior, personality, professional development, and knowledge. ... A girl asked me if she could go to the bathroom, and I told her no, please sit down so that we can get started (it was apparent that she had to try to test my authority). ...

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