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    Standardized tests argument Do we really need 20-25 hours for testing? Some people think testing is fine the way it is. I think testing needs a change. We spend way too much time doing standardized tests that don’t even measure the skills people need in life. My main pieces of evidence are, the government is suggesting shorter tests, many other factors can affect standardized test scores, and my last piece of evidence is standardized tests don't measure all the skills people need in life. My

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    Standardized test are one of the many measures profession school counselors use to assess students performance and learning. When it come to making a decision about a student's educational performance, school counselors prefer more than one criteria instead of just using a single test. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) established in 2001 stated that the academic achievement of all student should be held accountable by the school. “High-stakes testing, which refers to the use of standardized test

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    schooling you received or to something about you? Who gets to decide what it means? Is it a standardized test? Is it our test scores or memorization of facts? How much or how well we can remember at a given point in time? How much knowledge we ought to have? What could it possibly be? I think this society has given “Well Educated" a poor definition. Sitting in a class for a long time does not make us educated. Test scores does not make us educated neither does reading faster than others or solving mathematical

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    Are teachers teaching students how to take standardized test or are teachers teaching students what they need to know in order to become successful? Although being and becoming successful are not the same concept, Standardized test main objective is to “meet each child at their starting point.” which means , it is created to measure each child's potential on a variety of subjects , and successfully bring them to a particular level, which each school district set because they think its the correct

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    the memorization of specific words that will be on the state test, not vocabulary building exercises. Educators have pep rallies that take educational time away from lesson plans and teaching in order to have the students learn cheers expressing how well they are going to do on the state test. Excess teacher and administration time is spent figuring out game plans, but not for teaching students, rather for figuring out how to increase test scores. Meanwhile, when students are truly excited about exploring

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    administering a standardized test, and analyzing a child’s speech. Prior to doing this assignment, I had never obtained a speech sample from a child or administered a standardized test on a child. Both were very difficult and I am very happy that I have experience now doing both. I do not think I obtained the best representative sample of the child’s speech. I think I would have elicited a better sample if I had obtained the sample after administering the standardized test. If I had administered the test first

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    institution they primarily look at a student’s standardized tests scores. These scores could help, or hurt a student in their admission process into their desired college or university. However, standardized test scores do not emit a full analysis of a student being admitted into a certain college or university. Some students are bad test takers, and don’t perform well with standardized tests, and everyone has different speeds. Overall, standardized tests don’t supply enough analysis to show the type

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    stakes evaluation. Firstly, one very controversial topic in America: Standardized testing. There are two most common cons associated with standardized tests. Firstly, standardized tests are not essential. Secondly, hypothetically speaking if standardized testing were a resourceful scale to weigh a student’s appropriate academic level, the costs correlated with these tests is too pricey. When you really break it down Standardized tests are inefficient because they rarely show information we aren’t already

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    Standardized tests are unnecessary because they are excruciating to the minds of many innocent students. Each year, the tests get tougher and stricter until the students cannot process their own thoughts. The tests become torturous to the minds of those only starting in the world of tests. The students already battling in the war are continuing to fall deeper and deeper into the world of uncreativity and narrowness. As the walls narrow in on them, they are lost and unable to become innovative thinkers

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    nearly fallen asleep to over our years of standardized tests. I myself can be included with you in that experience and I hope to give you a little more information on these all too familiar tests this afternoon. Today we are going to look at the origins of standardized testing, the purpose of standardized testing, and standardized tests around the world. But first, I want to ask you another question: what is standardized

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