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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, I would

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

Standardized Test Do Not Measure Intelligence We go to school for twelve years, and throughout those twelve years we learn many techniques and a variety of subjects. The techniques we learn in elementary school we pursue it into middle school. Once finishing middle school everything becomes more challenging. Walking into high school is a really big step, and also very stressful. Going into junior year and senior year is when you set your mind to different goals and you start asking yourself “What

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

since the 1920’s, however a new trend of test optional schools have been appearing. Test optional schools allow students to choose whether they want to submit their test scores to colleges. It is supposed to stop unfairness and bias in the college acceptance process. Bowdoin College was the first school to become test optional in 1969. However, it was not until 2009 that many schools also started to become test optional. Today more than 870 school are test optional. Schools are choosing to pick the

asked to take psychometric tests. They are often used as a filtering mechanism at an early stage in the recruitment process. As with any kind of test, you can improve your performance by knowing what to expect and by practicing. As long as you’ve done some preparation beforehand, you can approach psychometric tests confident in the knowledge that you’re as well placed to succeed as anyone else. Psychometric tests are impersonal, standardized and objective, and practice tests are readily available. The

training. I was able to work with the secretary and principal to coordinate testing times. I also served as a test administrator and shadowed the principal. In regards to the NJ-ASK, there were multiple security components that had to be in order. First off, the tests had to be checked in by two people; the principal and the counselor who is also in charge of testing. The boxes of tests are then delivered to the testing closet where they are counted and checked in their designated area. This closet

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 scores

Test anxiety is a feeling of fear and worry for those individuals who will have performance evaluations (Brown et. al, 2011 as cited by Madridano, 2013). According to McNally (2002), there are two types of test anxiety- somatic and cognitive. Somatic anxiety is anxiety provoked by bodily symptoms of tension such as butterflies in the stomach while cognitive anxiety is provoked by mental concerns or worry which is supported by Cassidy and Johnson (2002) that cognitive anxiety was able to accurately

School is supposed to be a place where children learn and are prepared to conquer themselves and the real world, but are there real potential being overseen and shunned? “A person described as being of ‘low ability’ now, in the present, is assumed to have more limited learning potential than those who may be judged to be ‘more able’,” says Claire Taylor. Does this mean that students who could be exemplary at things such as therapy, math, reading, or S.T.E.M., could potentially be overlooked, simply