While many people outside of the American education system believe that standardized tests are an accurate measurement of student learning, there are many facts and examples that provide a different p…
Standardized testing
Fifty seven percent of students failed to meet the standard on the reading portion of the STAAR test while sixty five percent failed to meet the standard on the math portion1 shocking statistics for …
The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness is the state's student program. The tests are based on the Texas essential knowledge and skills, which are the state's curricular requirements. Fur…
Standardized testing is a customary event for most secondary school students. They are often taken towards the end of the school year and are the same for each student of a class or subject. These tes…
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…