Standardized Test Process

If someone asked you “how do you define student achievement?”, what would your answer be? Would you say student achievement is best measured by state assessments? Or would you say that student achievement is too complex a subject to be objectively measured? From a National Education Association survey in 2015, seventy percent out of 1500 members do not believe state assessments are developmentally appropriate for students (nea Today). State assessments, most commonly known as standardized testing, have the same questions, same answers, and have to be done within the same amount of time by all students. Standardized testing ranges from driving tests to the SATs. In our society, standardized testing is important because they are designed to

[establish credibility] If you were like me, which I can see everyone here is, you were told to bring two number two pencils, an eraser, and go to your assigned classroom unless the test was taken as a class in the gymnasium.

I definitely agree with Judge Jerry Baxter’s decision to incarcerate the teachers accused of cheating on standardized testing. Nine out of ten teachers who were brought before Judge Baxter were sentenced anywhere between one and seven years in jail. These, so called, “educators” were accused of giving students answers and erasing and changing answers on tests after they were turned in. Overall, the behavior of these teachers showed poor moral conduct and most likely ended up “ruining” their students education.

Nine year old Gianna is in fourth grade, and took her first standardized test last year. Gianna is a marvelous student and is very attentive in class; however, when it came to the test she did not do well. The whole time she was stressed out, and had no idea what she was doing because she could not focus. Her teacher spent so much class time trying to teach the class about the test that she did not get to learn much about the other subjects. For example, Gianna loves social studies, but her teacher mostly focused on math and language arts. Standardized tests are a form of test that requires all students to answer the same questions, or questions that are similar to each other. Standardized tests have gotten worse throughout the years because

In the commentary ‘The Value of Standardized Testing” (2013), Dr. Gail Gross, an educator specialized in curriculum and instruction, asserts that despite the influx of negative reviews, standardized testing has a positive impact on student performance, curriculum evaluation, and education integrity. Gross develops her implication by utilizing a three-pronged argumentative structure to analyze both the short term and long term advantages that standardized tests have on student growth, both individually and collectively. The author’s purpose is to persuade the readers to transform their opinions about the subject and emphasize the importance of these assessments on a student’s success in school in order to respond to and criticize an article

The average high school student takes at least one standardized test each school year. Standardized tests are all scored the same way and test takers are given the same questions. The scores students receive play a big part in whether or not they will be accepted to the colleges they apply to. Standardized test scores are one of the most important things colleges look for when reviewing applications. Standardized tests could be successful, in theory. However, they have shown to be less accurate than hoped, to cause copious amounts of stress, and to have little to no correspondence with productive adult lives. Because of their ineffectiveness, colleges should place less importance in them when admitting new students.

There is a problem in the Northern Potter High School with standardized testing. Particularly Keystone Exams. Standardized testing, in general, is a method used to monitor student progress and to determine a student's intelligence, work readiness, or future college performance (Bell & Meinelt, 2011). Little or no consideration is taken on other aspects of intelligence and important abilities such as creativity, critical thinking and problem solving, and effectively working with others (Christison & Schneider, 2013). Some colleges and teachers have begun to realize that testing gives kids a substantial amount of stress and anxiety. This leads students to do poorly on standardized tests. These scores may give an accurate reading

Standardized testing is a method of assessment that public schools have too heavy a reliance on. In order to address disparities that arise when students from different racial and socioeconomic gather in schools that also differ in available resources and funding, the federal government has mandated that public schools teach under standards predetermined by the state. From 2nd grade to 11th grade students are given a multiple choice test on these predetermined standards. These standards set the bar for what students are supposed to know at a certain year in their education. Once these tests are scored, students receive a score of far-below basic, basic, proficient, or advanced. In addition to the administration of the test, the federal government

Being completely honest, I do not know much about standardized test. I remember having to take them

Recently, the amount of standardized testing in the United States increased drastically. “Students are taking between ten and twenty standardized tests, depending on the grade. A total average of one hundred thirteen different ones by graduation”(Locker). A few years ago the United States, along with other nations, was given a test to assess the academic strengths and weaknesses of each nation and rank them accordingly. When the results were released and the United States was ranked near the bottom, the nation decided to start incorporating more testing through school. Between benchmark, TLI, PARCC, and common core standards, teaching pedagogy changed once again. Standardized testing has had a negative effect on teachers

Standardized testing is a topic that is all too familiar for those families whose children are still in school, but also for young adults where standardized testing has passed but still remains near. There is a stigma about standardized testing that looms as student’s abilities are put into question. Factors, for example, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds of students are also questioned due to standardized testing. Characteristics such as these are not types that students can control or change, but “high-stakes testing is widely viewed as positively discriminatory” against such static characteristics (Thernstrom, 2000, page 46).

I hope to prove that standardized testing is not the way to learn about the child's capability of learning or comprehension. I believe that too many tests are standardizing because it's only beneficial to the schools for their gain in state funding. Being a teacher myself, I see often day in; day out. Students have different learning styles and different teaching techniques that one must apply to reach them, and to do so we must go outside the box. So although, standardized testing may be good for some of students we cannot place others on the same plateau. Some of them that lack that basic concentration for a normalized test, and can be missed judged because if the test would be administered in a way to achieve full

Try to imagine if there were no standardized testing. So you have to teach the same stuff year after year again without any changes. What if those kids already know that lesson and need taught harder things? When there's standardized testing you can see if all the students are above the grade level or under their grade level.So that tells you need to teach them higher level school work or if their not that smal then a lower grade of school work or be in a class with more teachers for more help.

I do kind of good and kind of bad on standardized tests because there might be some questions that I understand and there might be some that I might not understand.I consider myself as a bad test taker because I rarely do well on the tests that I take I might have some questions right but I'm still gonna fail that test. I've always been this way because since I started to go to school I've taken tests and some I've failed and some I've done good in but the thing is that even though I study hard for the tests I'm still going to fail something on the test.How I prepare for a standardized test is by studying for a certain amount of time minutes,hours maybe days no matter if I have to do it in class after school or maybe while I'm walking.What

Standardized tests are annoying little things that students in schools all across the nation have to take every year. Though, if all the facts are taken into consideration, they do not really seem worth it, do they? Many people speculate whether or not they are actually measuring a student’s intelligence or anything like that. It seems that students do not necessarily have to learn the material, only memorize it for a short period of time. The question has to be raised, though-- what exactly qualifies a test to be a standardized test? Well, as described by The Glossary of Education Reform, there are two main things that make a test standardized. The first being that the test “...requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or