... 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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... 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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