Standardized testing

I have never felt more overwhelmed than the night before I take the ACT. It makes me feel like my entire life rides on one test. The ACT/SAT are college placement tests that help colleges determine wh…

Nowadays, it would not make sense to travel by horse to a meeting when cars are available, or write out a long math problem when calculators and computers can do the work in an instant. As time has pr…

Standardized tests may not be fun, but there's a reason why states do them. But wait a second, what is standardized testing? Standardized testing, also known as state tests, are exams that are designe…

To many Americans, standardized testing is a tool used by teachers to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching as well as evaluate what a child knows. Students that perform well on these tests are…

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein. This quote relates to standardized testing. T…

Schools today put too much time and effort into end of the year standardized tests. Teachers end up teaching based only on what is going to be covered in the test, which is a narrower span of informat…

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " ( Albert Einstein ) On May 17th, 1921 Thoms Edison gave Albert Einstein a standardized test; he failed it. …

Standardized testing has been very prominent for all students. Though it is significantly important, high school students dread taking these tests. Some of the factors that make standardized testing s…

Have you ever taken a test and wondered if that one test would decide if you pass or fail a class, get into the college you always dreamed of, or determine the rest of your future as a student and in …

Standardized school testing is not effective. Standardized testing, which is to test a student's knowledge upon a certain topic with a variable of questions is flawed and does not test a student's tru…