... the amount of standardized tests given. It seemed to me that all the schools, teachers, and students were all focused on preparing for the standardized tests; such as SAT's or the Regents in New York State, and not focusing on the art of learning, creativity and so on. I learned that these standardized tests are increasingly being used to determine not oly whether ... are valid. These standardized tests are also reliable. This implies for example, that the same person taking a different form of the test will tend to make close to the same score. Both validity and reliability are the key...

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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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