Exploratory Review Paper

With college admissions relying so highly on these tests many bright and capable students are getting left with little options (Sternberg 7). These students are facing this because the ACT and SAT primary focus on a narrow segment of skills that are needed to become a person that makes significant differences to the world (Sternberg 7). College’s argue that the admission test give them a quick glimpse of what the students potential is because they do not have to time to individually evaluate each potential student. This may be true but we need a better way to distinguish a person’s abilities than just a simple score on a test.

Whether we realize it or not, test scores play a vital role in many people’s self esteem. A person who frequently scores high will be confident that they are very intelligent and will expect others to see them that way. Asimov attested to this when he stated, “All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think that too.” (Asimov, 536). On the other hand, those who score low on tests often write themselves off to be unintelligent. Emphasis on the importance of the ACT or SAT test scores can lead an adolescent to conclude that he or she is not capable of succeeding in college and lead them to not pursue higher education. The tragedy is that we may pass on opportunities because we have labelled ourselves unintelligent based on a test score which is not a true refelection of our

Currently, there are around 37 thousands schools in the United States. Each year, there are more than a million students that applying for college institutions (National Center for Educational Statistics). As an university admission office, it is often difficult to select students based on numbers and words that show up on their application without knowing the applicant. Since there are many factors and can impact a student’s high school experience and performance, it is unfair to be comparing every student in the United States with a same standard. In order to minimize these differences, standardized tests were invented along with the No Child Left Behind act in 2001 which enforced all students to participate. Ideally, standardized tests are objective and graded by computer. The test is expected to be evaluating all students with the same standards. While the educators and designers of the standardized tests focus on generating a test that allows them to compare all students fairly, they abandon the fact that all students’ resources and backgrounds are inevitably different. Assuming that all elements of an educational system serve to benefit students’ learnings, standardized testing is an inadequate method of evaluation due to its negative impact on students and teachers’ mindsets, inaccuracy in evaluation of students’ abilities, and the

Standardized testing has been around since the early 1900’s. Today, it determines a high school student’s future. Every year juniors in high school start to prepare months in advance for the SAT’s and ACT’s. Along with the test itself, comes stress that is not necessary. The debate of standardized tests defining a student’s academic ability or not has become a recent popular controversial topic. Many colleges and universities are starting to have test optional applications because they are realizing that a single test score does not demonstrate the knowledge of a student. There is more value in a student that should rule an acceptance or rejection. In the article, “SAT Scores Help Colleges Make Better Decisions” Capterton states, “The SAT has proven to be valid, fair, and a reliable data tool for college admission” (Capterton). Capterton, president of the College Board, believes that the SAT’s and ACT’s should be used to determine a student’s acceptance because it is an accurate measure. What Capterton and deans of admissions of colleges and universities don’t know is the abundant amount of resources upper class families have for preparation, the creative talents a student has outside of taking tests, and the amount of stress they put on a 17 year old.

Student achievement is one of the driving factors in education and, quite possibly, the most important. Educators strive to help students improve achievement through quality instructional practices and safe and effective learning environments, but this does not always correlate to adequate performance on standardized testing used to evaluate college or career readiness. One of the measures utilized to evaluate student achievement is the ACT test. Historically, the ACT has provided a measure of college readiness and one that became very serious for Kentucky schools as it is now part of the state accountability

One of the main reasons colleges use a student’s standardized test scores is to determine how ready they are for college and how they will perform in their freshman year (“Do Standardized Test” par 10). However, in reality these standardized tests do not properly predict a student’s first year college performance. Throughout the years, multiple studies have shown that a student’s GPA is a much more accurate representation of their future performance in college than their standardized test results. One of these studies for example, states that “The ACT regularly underestimates the abilities of females, who earn higher grades than males in college, despite lower ACT scores.” (“The ACT: Biased” par 10)

High School juniors and seniors are frequently asked what they plan to do for their college education. While discussing their future in college, many relevant topics come into the conversation. One may talk about their grades and classes, paying for school, and their test scores. All of these have a very important impact on what a student will do for the next few years of their life. Unfortunately, in our society, test scores are an extremely important factor in the college admissions process. Students are highly encouraged to put forth a serious effort in order to achieve the best possible score. “To this day, most four-year colleges require applicants to take one or more of a number of standardized tests for admission, and

After hypothesis testing was completed, the results led me to look into several other areas. The CTQ, being composed of three different types of adverse stimuli, physical, emotional, and sexual, was split up into its respective areas in order to investigate if there was any significance within the CTQ compared to the ROI. The physical abuse and physical neglect were added together to create the total physical CTQ score, and the same was done to the emotional category. The sexual abuse category was not investigated further because often there is little variability as well as the fact that the mean score for the group was not much higher than the minimum possible score.

Most people think that the SAT shows college readiness but does it really? Why SAT scores are meaningless: because the words

Lastly, Lombardi, A. R. et al (2012), in their article “College and Career Readiness Assessment: Validation of the Key Cognitive Strategies Framework,” examined the reliability and internal validity of the key cognitive strategies (KCS) within the College Career Ready School Diagnostic (CCRSD) proposed to evaluate the degree to which academic institutions offer college and career readiness opportunities for their students. The findings of the research study yielded satisfactory results as the KCS dimensions manifest suitable reliability and promising validity evidence. The findings are consistent with the earlier studies pertaining to the five-part KCS model, which depicts that problem formulation, research, interpretation, communication and

When preparing for college, one thing students all across America can agree upon is the hatred of standardized testing. The stress of scoring high is one that weighs heavy on all students’ shoulders because it will directly impact their futures. Time spent preparing for these tests often feel like a huge waste when the “goal-score” is not achieved, or when a high score is given and the student still does not get into the educational institution of his or her choice. Often schools’ funding is based upon test scores and that directly impacts the education a student will receive. Schools who wish to do well on these tests for their future students will spend an unhealthy amount

The first topic “Measuring College and Career Readiness” was presented by Myliss Parker, Director of Advanced Academics. She said she would specifically address the Advanced Placement (AP) program. Mrs. Parker shared several slides of data showing the number of students who took AP exams and how many scored a three or better, the number of AP exams taken and how many had a score a three or higher, AP scores of three or better by subject, the number of students who scored a three or better by campus, the number of AP exams taken with a score of three or higher by campus, and the number of AP scholars by campus. She then described the next steps regarding campus leadership for the AP program, continued data analysis, curriculum alignment for

The purpose of this research involves understanding individual motivations for volunteering in clinical trials and/ or health related product tests.

There are many different types of standardized tests used in schools around the country, but “high-stakes” achievement tests in US elementary and secondary schools have produced

For this project, we used exploratory research to conduct our analysis on healthy eating. Due to the little knowledge we had regarding healthy eating, we needed to get information from the general public regarding their opinions toward healthy and unhealthy food. Our goal was to find a potential relationship between the cupcakes and the chicken and spinach sandwich. By finding a potential relationship, this could be used for further research experiments regarding the opinions towards healthy and unhealthy foods. We used mainly qualitative research questions to conduct our survey, while having a few quantitative research questions to help compliment the data. Using qualitative research questions was extremely beneficial to our research study because it