... however, is more deeply rooted. Chauncy and Conant came up with this idea shortly after WWII ended, with the intentions that it would "create a new democratic elite that would lead postwar America to progress, strength, and prosperity" (www.the-big-test.com). This plan, however, did not fulfill their ... upper-class, it also effectuated disaccord and hostility, especially pertaining to issues of class and race. This test, though it was intended to create a NEW aristocracy, it merely created a "meritocracy" that is "neither natural nor inevitable, and it does not apportion opportunity equ...

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... terms of educational programs. This paper will provide an extensive overview on urban education, which will include a comparison of black and white test scores; the effects urban communities and families have on children, and money for education. Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower ... . Correlations ranging from .16 to .78 have been obtained from studies examining the relationship between the PPVT-R standard score equivalents and various "g factor" scores such as Wechsler Full Scale IQS, Stanford-Binet IQS, and McCarthy Scales of Children's Abili...

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... to exclude everything else. The curriculum is thereby narrowed, which means that some subjects are ignored. Within those that are taught, lower order thinking skills are emphasized. As a result, test scores get inflated while real learning suffers" (Phelps). Performance based assessment guarantees an increased understanding of the growth of individual child. Such understanding reduces the need for currently used standardized tests ... percentiles. They are generally shown in charts showing the performance groups of students who have taken the test. Norms show the comparison of the perfo...

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... on the school to keep state and federal funding based on the students scores. Each year the ACT, American College Testing, has 1,666,017 students take the test and 1,664,479 students took the SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, since the ACTs inception in 2011. The original record ... music and other electives offered. So how do schools fix this? Lower the standards, which then results in teachers, having to make new curriculums. Students have difficulties with standardized tests because while they are great for the students who are proficient at logic, analysis, computation and ... to the t...

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... 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 ... such as the SATs and ACTs. This leads to a disadvantage in being accepted to schools with a minimum SAT requirement and can also lead to a disadvantage in receiving scholarships based on test scores. Statistics are the largest factor in this argument and always seem to feed the fire of those wishing ......

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... teachers, schools, districts, and so on. Many state boards of education use these results to determine state funding in addition to any new educational reforms and policies. While standardized testing is a very popular way to assess the state of education in America, it is one that ... minimum. The colleges" nice way of stating this minimum is as the average scores of their attending students. Nevertheless, these "averages" let students know whether they have a fighting chance of getting in or not. The SAT, in addition to showing which students get into which colleges, is also a ... etc....

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... they academically smart because they have high score? Or what if the student maintains good grades working hard in school but receive bad scores on these tests? There are many ambiguous answers to these questions. Standardized testing is bias based on minorities and financially separates the advantage ... big barrier between minority student such as Latinos and blacks with white students. According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. In comparison, white student...

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... known was possible. Peter Sacks notes some encouraging trends in the educational system, namely the growing number of colleges and universities who no longer require prospective students to take the SAT. Also, he discusses the notion of "authentic achievement," which assesses a child's performance rather than measuring it against a national average or comparing one child's performance to another's. It is gradually ... namely state governments, where in California, a teacher whose students performed the best on a certain test received a cash bonus of twenty-five thousand dollars, while on...

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... 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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... 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 entrance exams are highly accurate predictors when it ... education. These standardized test set the standards for all students to reach and break all boundaries; still, those that oppose this testing claim that these tests are racially discriminatory. Te...

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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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... the way students should be taught in today's schools. I attended Valley Stream Central High School for my high school years in Valley Stream, New York where I had the opportunity to be both schooled and educated. With each academic commencing and ending, teachers would continuously remind us about a ... education. These tests were used for no more than to compare students' educational performances to one another. From local exams to the infamous SAT and ACT standardized exams, these exams created general stereotypes and prejudices between students who excelled and those who did not do so...

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