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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Students need to learn more skills from a teacher other than how to pass a test. ... I'm worried about tomorrow's test." ... Other kids will give up, figuring they aren't good test takers, so why bother studying.... Some would disagree and say that the national standardized test is a good idea. ... Where a good school passes this test and the bad school fails. ...

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Methodologies is one category within this great debate, such as standardized testing. ... 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. ... " as David is frantically writing in the SOL test booklet. ... Due to our reliance upon testing, both stude...

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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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These people had developed their own ideas about the reality and rather than test their notions to a narrow test of accuracy, they were content to blame reality. ... I even see this every day at school, when students don't study for a test and then fail, or when an athlete doesn't show up for practice and loses their role as a starter. ... Education itself can in fact make this situation of people not submitting their thoughts to a narrow test of accuracy worse, not better. ... If Rodriguez had tested this through a narrow test of accuracy, he would have found that it was a false not...

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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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The test results will be made public in annual report cards on how schools and states are progressing toward their objectives. The act also says that children will be tested annually in grades 3 through 8, in reading and math to measure their progress. ... Students must also increase in theirs test scores in order to be promoted to the next level. ... She claims that schools headboard plans out the testing dates for the students, being a monthly test throughout the whole school year. ... He explains that the school plans a monthly test for the students in order for them to the constant with it...

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Continuous assessment may come in form of tests, projects, assignments, observations, questionnaire and interviews. ... In this model, inputs (e.g., curriculum requirements) go into the black box and outputs (e.g., test results) come out. There is often little attention paid to whether the students actually understand the concepts, but rather whether they can pass the tests. ... This collection of data, in conjunction with performance tasks and standardized tests, provides a more complete picture of what students have learned. ...

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National teacher testing has become a multi-million dollar business. ... Cost may range for one test from $25 to $140 dollars. ... But can a test determine whether or not the person will be an effective teacher? ... While standardized test are supposed to assess knowledge, they do not assess the applicable demonstration of or the ability to convey knowledge. ... Together, observations and test data are use to determine a teacher's effectiveness. ...

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The Japanese testing in these schools is also another way to bewilder and devastate the students. ... It can cause the students to not pay attention to the class and only study one or two weeks before the test. After they have good test results, the things they learned or memorized can soon be forgotten. ... According to the American Educational Service Group, the American testing method however will help the students understand and know the material fully, for they have tests every week. ... Japanese teachers value their students only by the grades they get on the test. ...

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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. 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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They are still tested on their progress and need to provide credible representation of what they have learned. ... Students check out textbooks, study the chapters, take a test and return the book. ... Rachel scored high enough test scores to gain admittance to Harvard. ... The state of Oregon allows students to unschool; provided that they agree to test after grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. ... Many children who are unschooled surpass the educational abilities and test scores of public schools. ...

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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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The president has suggested that making school days longer and extending the school year will increase learning, raise test scores, and close the achievement gap. ... "The argument that more time in school increases test's scores is debatable. Countries that score better than we do on international standardized tests require fewer hours of schooling per year than we do. ... But state tests results showed that charter schools which typically have more in structural time- actually have a lower percentage of students exceeding state standards, suggesting that the influence of more time is un...

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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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The other side of the argument is that teachers, at least in New York State, are forced to prepare students for the Regents tests that all students must take. ... If the teacher does take time to teach the multicultural version of American history, he or she is taking that much time away from preparing the students for their state mandated tests. ... If they have a desire to teach a multicultural version of American history they have to do so at the expense of the students" test grades. ... Teachers are expected to prepare students for the state mandated tests, which, in my personal expe...

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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. ... Students should be given the opportunity to form their own hypothesis and design an experiment to test the hypothesis. ...

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All Standards and Benchmarks from the 370 school districts in Iowa should be gathered, checked for consistency, then we can measure testing and instruction. ... Basically, this is to see if we are teaching what we"re testing for. ... If we would collect all the Standards and Benchmarks and look for consistency, couldn't that lead to better testing? ... Testing will work better when variables are minimized. ...

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Grades and test scores are low. ... Schools are graded on safety, education of teachers, and test scores. ... In Cleveland, a new study shows test scores for scholarship students to be 11-12% better than when the students attended public schools. ...

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No matter the level of integration, there are advantages and disadvantages to the approach and using it effectively requires a delicate balancing act between the needs to address the requirements of high stakes testing with the desire to engage students in what they need to learn. ... They also need to take professional development time to understand how their discipline can connect to other disciplines and develop knowledge they may not have, change assessment strategies and somehow prepare students for high stakes testing at the same time (Loepp, 1999). ... There is an increasing need to...

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For his Physics students, he must prepare them to take the AP test for college. But the AP test doesn't change because FFHS's system changed; the same material must be learned this year as last to pass the test. ... H is concerned whether or not students under the block schedule will posses the knowledge required to pass this test. ...

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And because a high school education was not "automatic" for the students in Ireland, if McCourt and his classmates wanted to further their education, they had to prove themselves worthy of it by passing tests and taking extra exams to fulfill entrance requirements. ... One teacher explained to McCourt, "don't worry about Your World and You and the midterm test. ... Distribute the test, watch the kids scribble what they don't know, retrieve the tests. ...

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The students who were tested before and after accomplishing this program demonstrated that their scores were extremely higher upon completing the program. ... When the student did score poorer on the tests, "...performance appeared to be related to the students" reactions to changes in their routines rather than the content of the lessons" (Morin 29). Thus, the majority of the tests were scored well following each level of the program. ...

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