... Throughout high school, some teachers were not so focused on anything but the tests. It was either you pass or you didn't. Instead of learning new things, we were too focused on preparing for the End-of-Instruction test and what to expect on it. Coming out of high school, in ... courses. I was unaware of it until the beginning of my senior year but had no idea on what I passed and what I did not pass. I sat down with a former teacher of mine name Mrs. Roberts and asked her a few questions about how she felt about standardized testing. Mrs. Roberts stated that it ... few years. Standardi...

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... children be taught intensively toward Washington's comprehensive test of basic skills. The result, he engineered a set of high scores (Moore 258). Moore goes on to explain that as a result of Crew's brilliance as an administrator he was offered a lucrative deal with the New York city school system (258). Not too bad. Eventually Crew was fired. When the people of Tacoma realized what ... had happed and they were not to thrilled. It is not just administrators that try to manipulate these scores. Parents manipulate these scores as well. Parents are taking their children to psychologists wh...

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... Test in 3rd grade. I've always wondered, what was the purpose of taking a mandated test? Which essentially is wasting time, where the student could be learning new skills in the class room; now that I"m in high school, I see that these tests can do more harm than good. For example students whom don't ... helpful for evaluation, as the persons answer the same questions usually in the multiple choice format where each question only has one right answer. In the SAT's the test taker is rewarded for quickly answering the questions, but these tests don't measure the ability of the test takers...

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