The following reaction is on the article about standardized testing on the Black and White race. This article describes that Black and Whites differ on intellectual skill, and that they are trying to narrow the gap between the Blacks and Whites to provide Blacks with better opportunities; consequently, it would promote racial equality more as described in the article. I believe that there are differences between different races, and that the gap will one day close. I would say that the reason that the gap even exists is because of our past racial inequality, Black people were viewed as the inferior race because of their darker color, and in the past slaves did not get an education. What im trying to say is that the Black ancestry for most part was not educated as well as the Whites. Smart genes are obtained from smart genes, this is why White people are smarter because they always had the freedom to activate these genes, on the other hand Black people in the past were not given the same opportunity and many of those smart genes could have been dormant, well this is my theory, I really do not know wether there is or should be such a big gap in intelligence between races, yet it does exist, and I believe to just give it some time. I do not think that the first smart White person was simply born that way, yet with positive reinforcement and continuos challenges they obtained more and more intelligence every birth. As for Black people, they were not able to express their intelligence and now that they are finally able to because of a very close racial equality, I believe it is only a matter of time before that gap closes completely. .
Standardized Testing: Are they Beneficial? ... (Texas Law Limits Use of Standardized Tests in Graduate Admissions, (2). ... Critics also recognize that numerous blacks and Hispanic students can't afford test preparation class because they come low income families. ... Standardized testing seems like it is designed to reduce work to more on memorization. ... Standardized testing does not measure the performance from the student. ...
Public concern has caused political campaigns to discuss standardized testing policies in recent years. ... Moreover, many teacher and principal's salaries rely on standardized tests, which may have the effect of many high poverty schools wanting to hire uncertified and inexperienced teachers who teach test preparation. ... Among the poverty-stricken students are mostly black males who are the ones that are "disproportionately represented" among those held back and denied a diploma (2). ... In fact, nine out of ten states use standardized testing to determine high school graduation ...
-Philip Slater Quite a lot of information has been written on the negative affects of standardized testing on students, one must only type the phrase "standardized testing" into an Internet search and thousands of hits occur. There have been books written on the subject such as, Standardized Minds by Peter Sacks or Alfie Kohn's The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools. ... {find more examples and citations} Although there seems to be relatively active debates regarding high-stakes standardized testing for students there are less conversations ...
The Rorschach inkblot test is a type of projective psychological test created in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach. The test is used to analyze personality and emotional functioning. The Rorschach consists of ten inkblot cards which in a way are printed in symmetrical fashion from right to left; ten of inkblot cards include five black and grey, two black and red, and three colored cards (Trull & Prinstein, 2012). ... Moreover, Exner's comprehensive system is based on a standardization sample of more than 2,000 children, adolescents, and adults. ... A high standard Rorschach test typically byp...
These gaps in test scores have been documented over the years and are applicable to various standardized tests but are most apparent in SAT I test scores. In 1988, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips collaborated on the editing of the book The Black-White Test Score Gap. ... To provide evidence for this claim, Steele has performed tests in which he calls upon both black and white students to take a standardized test. ... The results of this experiment were as follows; black students did less well on the first test then they did on the second test. ... In 1938, Stanley Kaplan started t...
Race has always been a factor in discussing the results of standardized tests. ... In 1905, a French psychologist by the name of Alfred Binet, created the first test of standardized human intelligence. ... Keeping this in mind, blacks are being discriminated against with the use of an unreliable test. ... America really began to misused these test to degrade blacks, and tried to claim that since blacks had lower scores than whites, they . 6 deserved lower paying jobs and less advantages. ... It appears that once society realized that whites could do better on standardized t...
Active viewpoints commonly tend to be either black or white, having no real mediation or common ground to satisfy a solution plausible to each side. Before I jump into this debate it will be necessary to give a brief history on standardized testing, what it is and how it came about. ... Tulenko, documents interviews with educators, policy makers, and test makers in regards to the standardized testing debate. ... While there are many viewpoints that strictly appose standardized testing, there are also some intriguing views in the pro-testing side of the court. ... I was informed of another ...
It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still score below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. ... The black white tests score gap does not appear to be an inevitable fact of nature. ... Standardized test assess peoples skills and knowledge using methods that some test takers find poorly, frustrating, anxiety-provoking, or silly. ... These and other factors of standardized tests have led critics to suspect that blacks might do poorly for reasons that have more to do with the method of assessment than with racial differences in actual skills. Standard...
Immigration intelligence tests were also put into place. This was a standardized test to see if the African Americans knew enough about the United States in order to become a legal immigrant. These tests were often too difficult for even the common white man to pass. These tests were set into place to "weed out the unfit". The idea of these tests originates from the Great Chain's idea that, "intelligence is a singular and innate property, ascertainable through standardized tests, and permitting the establishment of everyone's relative positions by their scores, or IQs...
