... 's barren grade book. However, almost annually throughout a student's life of education, the test of all tests is placed on each desk and the brand new box of factory sharpened number two pencils make their way out of the filing cabinet. Some students dread this day and some students look at it with complete ... are the SATs which are often thought of as the most influential test the average student will ever take. Statistically females score lower than males do on most standardized tests. On the 1998 SAT boys were 35 points ahead of girls in math and 7 points ahead in English (Sommers 3...

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... and their learning capabilities is the standardized test. Standardized tests are designed to give a common measure of a student's performance. Popular tests include the SAT, IQ tests, Regents Exams, and the ACT. "Three kinds of standardized tests are used frequently in schools: achievement, diagnostic, and aptitude" ( ... school students when learning problems are suspected. Aptitude tests are designed to predict how a student will perform in the future. For example, the SAT predicts performance in the first year of college. Standardized tests give educators a standard measure or "yardsti...

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... many teachers across the country "teach to the test," meaning that they merely prepare students for what they will need to know to score well. This type of education does not encourage life learning; the ability to not only comprehend, but also analyze and interpret learned information ... merely a regurgitation of knowledge that children learn for the sole purpose of answering questions on a standardized test correctly. Standardized tests, particularly the SAT, have no value for measuring the learning potential of a student; just what they know at the time the test is administered. Als...

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Statistics prove that "African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on the test that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence" (NY Times 1). Some of society ... need with "an emphasis on increased funding for poor school districts, higher achievement for poor and minority students, and new measures to hold schools accountable for their students' progress" (PBS 1). Colleges and Universities utilize the ACT's and/or the SAT's as the most reliable and unbiased source to compare applicants. These college ent...

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... kids that didn't regularly take tests like those who did, did not do as well because they were not used to taking these tests, and that's why they did not score as well. It is said that you can take the same set of statistics and tell two completely different stories. You can probably do the same thing with standardized test ... 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 th...

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... , with the Connecticut Mastery 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 do very well on the ... tests are not very 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 qu...

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