For as long as standardized testing has been in use, there has been controversy regarding its purpose to students. Parents, students, and credible sources continue to debate the importance and necessity of standardized testing. Norman Augustine’s “High Marks for Standardized Tests”, focuses on the positives of standardized testing by refuting arguments made by opponents of standardized testing. In contrast, James Popham’s “Why Standardized Tests Don’t Measure Educational Quality” points out why standardized
Testing has altered in many ways from the time when it first appeared with the creation of public teaching led by Horace Mann. Standardized testing is the most normally used and well identified process of testing used in the United States as well as several other states in the world. It is used to govern student success, progress, and development. On the other hand, standardized testing was not always used for the same purposes it is today, nor was it as significant and as deeply be dependent on
emphasis on standardized testing and not individual student achievement. Although the United States uses standardized testing as a crutch, it is not an effective measure of a student’s ability, a teacher’s competency, or a school’s proficiency. Cheating can be a common routine in a classroom—from copying work on homework to copying answers on a test. “Cheating by teachers and administrators on standardized tests is rare, and not a reason to stop testing America's children” (Standardized Tests). This
Standardized testing rose to become a prominent force in America’s education landscape with the passing of the 2002 piece of legislation, No Child Left Behind. This law pressed states to hold their teachers and students accountable for their performance through the means of standardized testing (McAdoo). It came about as the solution that would make America’s stagnating education system competitive on the global scale again as it “put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the
abilities to take standardized tests. If a school or teacher is effective, the students scored high, and ineffectivity is due to low scores. Standardized testing has only negative impacts on students, and is a horrible way to determine the educational quality of a school. A standardized test is “any examination that's administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.” (Popham) There are two types of standardized tests, aptitude tests and achievement tests. A standardized aptitude test
and scored using standardized procedures (Reynolds and Livingston, 2014a). In addition, it is considered as one of the many tools of psychological assessment which is intended to evaluate the basic components of an individual’s cognitive, affective, personality and some other components. Specifically, Reynolds and Livingston (2014b) construed standardized tests as tests that are administered, scored, and interpreted in a standardized manner, which aims to ensure that testing conditions are as nearly
In Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue”, the author’s firm belief that a lack of strong language skills causes a deficit of power in society is shown through her use of rhetorical devices. The essay focuses on the experiences of Tan’s mother, a Chinese immigrant, facing challenges due to her poor English skills. Because of her mother’s lack of perfect English, Amy Tan, now an avid writer, tells of how she was affected. By utilizing contrast in the essay, Amy Tan depicts that spoken language can alter
received a Master in Medical Healthcare Simulation from NYIT-NYCOM. The school gave the important information regarding Medical Simulation. The school emphasizes on the goal, purpose, benefit, and how to run a simulation center. The importance to use of standardized patient to improve communication skills. Here is it the website for the school. http://www.nyit.edu/medicine/admissions/ms_medical_education_health_care_simulation/ .There are two other schools which offer a similar program, however
One sect of her published research is documented in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology article, “Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals”. In this article, Duckworth states, in reference to a comparative study of varied testing measures with regard to intelligence, “Grit nonetheless demonstrated incremental predictive validity of success measures over and beyond IQ and conscientiousness. Collectively, these findings suggest that the achievement of difficult goals entails
Research may be defined as “an endeavour to discover new or collate old facts etc. by the scientific study of a subject or by a course of critical investigation” (Oxford Concise Dictionary, 1995). This definition clearly emphasizes the importance of methodologies as it pertains to researching a subject matter. It is for this reason that it is extremely essential that the researcher adequately considers the relative merits of a range of possible methodologies along with their associated data needs