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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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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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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They then find out that there is not enough time to read their text causing them to find other means to do well on their tests. The result is trying to cheat or plagiarize, either off the Internet or copying someone else's work during a test. ... I remember in high school, my friends and I always sat together on one big desk so that during test it was easier to pass each other notes and answers or even switch papers. After receiving good marks we all laughed about how easy the test was forgetting about how we got the mark. ... In most cases, students are pushed too much that they feel...

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Testing is another side of the story. Tests are the most important part of school. If you flunk the tests, you flunk the course. ... Testing methods have changed as well. ... Hart didn't, and on a test that she thought she had aced, received a 63. ...

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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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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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When I graduated high school all my teachers cared about was the scores on the standardized tests that determine their salary. ... If we start school so early how do the teachers and administrators expect us to do well on these tests? ... I feel that there should have only been tests instead of quizzes and tests. The tests would be worth more and one would most likely to study the information more if there were only tests and not both. ...

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In the same test, students from Shanghai, China, received higher scores than any other school system in the world (Hechinger 1). ... Finland does not do any assessments or testing of their students until they finish secondary school at age sixteen. ... The U.S. testing system could be reformed by schools or states, as long as the main goals were being accomplished. ... The U.S. should discontinue testing until children are older as officials do in Finland. ... There has been worldwide academic testing which proves that American students compare ...

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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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Assessment Results Jane was administered two tests The Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) and The Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System Revised (CDM-R). ... Jane completed both of the above mentioned testing in less than three hours. In the beginning of the CDM-R testing process she appeared nervous and optimistic about how well she was going to score; she was assured by the examiner that there were no right or wrong answers and for her to relax and take her time. ... Long-term goals to visit local colleges for possibly new career option Test Review The Harrington-O'She...

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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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Many states have additional requirements, such as the submission of a curricular plan, testing of students, or less frequently testing requirements for p! ... Social development tests showed that the children rated closely in self-concept and assertion (Packard 21). Another test showed that home schooled children scored higher on self-concept than public school students (Farris). ...

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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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People were tested to see how this principle works. ... In tests, when subjects were told to indicate faint tones that were played during this phase, they successfully indicated about half of the tones. ... When the same test was done on subjects in phase 2, no response was given. ... The test showed that students slept two hours less on schooldays than weekends, and woke up 3.5 hours earlier on schooldays. ...

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Fact Sheet Zero Tolerance History of Zero Tolerance In public schools, "zero tolerance" means that students are quickly suspended or expelled for breaking the law or violating school rules. These policies were initiated on the federal level by the 1994 Gun-Free Schools Act, which responded to...

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There would NEVER be any police brutality, and it would be a MUST that each police went through a special test for prejudice and hatred. Their training would last two years and it would include such activities as psychological, emotional and physical tests (done by computer for less mistakes). ... Those who pass the test will be rewarded with a ceremony, which lasts for two days, with nothing but their favorite foods, drinks, and snacks. ... They would be psychologically tested and screened. ... Of course, they would be psychologically screened and tested. ...

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It has been found though, that "Of the 11 charter schools that administered third-, fifth- or eighth-grade ISATS last February (1999), only two beat the state grade-level averages in every math and reading test." ... Because of the number of students in the program, although limited, there is a recommendation of twenty five percent individual instruction, sixty percent computer based instruction, and fifteen percent independent study equaling a minimum of 36 hours before the student will be able to test for completion of a credit. ... The students also spend much time working with computer ...

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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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