Educational Testing Service

performance of tests: either people from some cultural groups have different capabilities or some cultural groups face greater barriers than others in educational achievement. I agree with the latter. Culture and cultural content are intertwined into various aspects such as language and as a result it would be impossible to have cultural-free testing. Moss (2013) is of the view that high scores in standardized tests require conformity or awareness of the main culture, and minors were unlikely to have

Ogechi Nwokonko Mr. Marshall English 1301 11/12/2014 Researched Argument Although standardized testing was a gateway of opportunities and successes for many scholarship bound students, it was also the downfall in the educational system today. How can we define standardized testing? According to the Edglossary, state testing can be defined as a test that: “requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that

test is any test scored in a consistent manner and requires test-takers to answer identical questions. Among the most common include the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT). According to the article “Standardized Testing Has Negatively Impacted Public Schools” from Opposing Viewpoints in Context, the beginnings of standardized tests occurred during World War I when the American Psychological Association developed a “ground-administered test” to eliminate inefficient

Standardized Testing Standardized testing is a collectively accepted aspect of education today, it is used to evaluate if students of all ages are being shaped and educated up to the common standard set by the government. Standardized testing can be seen in almost all educational settings from kindergarten classes to exit exams for nurse practioners. Standardized testing came into play when former President George Bush ran his campaign on being the education president and enacted the No Child Left

Testing Testing Many people in the United States are concerned with the role that standardized testing has on education. Most of them have very strong views on this subject and as it usually happens with large-scale issues these views are very diverse and often opposite. Some claim that standardized testing is the best way to determine student’s skills and qualities because they are equally designed for everyone and not biased. Others, on the other hand, argue the fairness of these tests. They believe

than the white test takers (Racial bias, 1). Combine these questions with the Educational Testing Services, ETS, rules for building a standardized test, “the only questions that end up on the SAT are ‘white-preference’ questions” or at least according to Jay Rosner, who is the executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation, a program that’s seeks to help the more impoverished students with their standardized testing scores (Racial Bias, 1). Rosner

Carl Brigham of Princeton University, was introduced in 1926 by the College Board [1]. The SAT is an attempt to predict how well a student will perform during their first year of college without measuring past academic achievement. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) was

taught to be good test takers. With all this testing there can be unnecessary stress put on students and teachers out of fear of doing poorly. Standardized testing, while a good measurement of learning, often puts more stress on students than necessary. The earliest known use of a standardized test was in seventh century China for citizens applying for a government job. Although that was

the source material, however, I began to question the legitimacy of this academic test. In the first article of the source material, titled “Can you Make Yourself Smarter”, the topic of intelligence testing was addressed. The article also mentioned more accurate and effective forms of intelligence testing and the use of intelligence improving games in schools. Upon mentioning schools and effective ways of measuring intelligence I began to wonder whether tests administered in school, like the SAT, were

What does it really show? Those in favor of the SAT believe that standardized testing teaches students test-taking skills that they will rely on in college. Along with that, in general the SAT is easy to administer, the directions are simple to understand, and the grading is objective. A machine provides the scoring and teachers can’t