... paper is an analysis of standardized tests; it reveals many challenges towards students, teachers, and schools. These challenges include stress on students to score high on the test to get into a good college, stress on teachers to teach students what is on the test, and stress on the school to keep state and federal funding based on the students scores. Each year the ACT, American ... some states they are used to determine which students stay back a grade, which high school students get their diploma, and which teachers get bonuses (Philips) Why do we do standardized test is that cause...

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... tests, but more specifically, standardized tests. "A survey by the American psychological association found that nearly half of all teens said school pressures, due to the abundant amount of test preparation, stressed them." (Cizek) With this being said, chronic stress is not only discomforting, but it can cause a sense of panic and paralysis. Most people wouldn't believe that most cases of ... stress are from academics, and not bullying. "Test related jitters, are so common that the Standford-9 exam comes with instructions on what to do with a test booklet incase a student vomits on it...

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... did, obsess for days, or feel physical symptoms such as an upset stomach. Other kids will give up, figuring they aren't good test takers, so why bother studying."(Konrad). Children in the third grade are too young to be experiencing this kind of stress, this is the grade in which the standardized testing begins. There are many ways to deal with ... test anxiety but is that what children should be learning at that age? "As testing increases, many schools have even added these activities ... to the standard curriculum" (Konrad). Children should be taught how to learn and not taught to de...

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... between students and teachers as evidenced by the gap between student and teacher in the frame; we put a majority of stress and responsibility on the shoulders of students to test well and the results of standardized testing is a great factor in what happens to a school, regardless of how accurately the ... accreditation, jobs, apparent standards of academic excellence; these all may fall, be pulled, decrease, fail, rise, and increase according to the results of test scores achieved by students. We rely on these scores for where schools, districts, and even entire state systems are head...

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... administration in 2009. NCLB mandated high-stakes tests for all states, and imposed a carrots-and-sticks strategy of rewards and punishments if test scores were not consistently high. The thinking is that students and teachers will work and learn more if there are serious rewards or punishments ... would benefit everyone. So it's logical to conclude that these tests, after being in place since 2002, would improve math and reading test scores, certainly allowing fewer students into remedial college courses. If these tests improved complex skills in math and reading, students would not ha...

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... placing the teachers in a situation where they have to help the students pass their English and writing state exam. Students must also increase in theirs test scores in order to be promoted to the next level. Rapoport states "school[s] [are] under a lot of pressure" having to deal ... with the required grades that the students should be reaching. He claims that the schools and the teachers go into a lot of stress having the students become proficient in their academic subjects (Rapoport, Tenth 134). Goodman states that teachers have to prepare within months to make sure their ... ; in ...

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... . The Act also makes it look as if the school systems now are all about test grades [OBr13] [Deb09]. Every meeting that teachers have are about to get test grades higher. However, what good are test grades being higher if the student did not learn anything on the test and the teacher gives them the answer to improve AYP so that the school can ... unfair to the student because they are being falsely taught. When Meier visited an elementary school, she stated that she saw a teacher giving the students the answer on a national distributed test: "What this means is that our younger generatio...

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... on spelling, vocabulary, reading and mathematics. The findings for West Virginia's statewide initiative are as follows: • The more students participated in computer education, the more their test scores rose on standardized testing. • Consistent student access to the technology led to having a positive attitudes towards the technology by both student and teacher and teacher training in ... the technology led to the greatest student achievement gains. All students' test scores rose on the standardized tests with lower achieving students rising the most. Increased Motivation and Self ...

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... who may have behavioral problems, as music can provide them with an emotional outlet. Music education has been linked to the achievement of higher standardized test scores by students (Arts Education). This is because the learning of music uses similar parts of the brain as learning a language, and therefore ... children are developing a wide array of reasoning and problem-solving skills (Department for Culture). These skills will help them when faced with problems on a test. Music covers many aspects of thinking (Waddell). Not only does it give you the right brain experience, but it al...

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... both students and families alike. Appropriate organization and utilization of space is important to create a learning environment where materials are accessible and the schedule and routines are predictable. I also cannot stress enough, the importance of strong family-teacher relationships. Families can provide the best insight into a student and should be a welcomed addition to any classroom. In order to have an effective ... checklists, running records and documented through portfolios or journals. Informal assessment provides a clear picture of the child since they are engaged at a l...

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... specific questions to the meeting. These meetings will be useful and productive for the students if they ask a few question, want to learn some strategies in writing paper or taking test and get help in preparing for an exam. Moreover, if their grade is not good (minus C), it is perfectly to go to the professor and ask why my grade is ... their success and efficiency, so their overall study time will decrease. To sum up, the better you manage your time, the more successful you will be and the less unnecessary stress you will be under. As it can be seen from the discussions made so far a...

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... graded the knowledge of teenagers in seventy countries. Students fifteen years of age were ranked fourteenth in reading, seventeenth in science, and twenty-fifth in math (Koebler 1). In the same test, students from Shanghai, China, received higher scores than any other school system in the world (Hechinger 1). The top educational systems were found in Finland and South Korea. There was an ... the U.S. now, which was when they began to reform their educational system (Anderson 2). Finland achieves the same educational success, without causing the student and their family the high stress ...

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... reading and journaling, student creation of assessment rubrics and independent projects. Ruggieri was able to measure the results of these learning activities by having her students take a grade-less, stress-free test which would compare their learning with Ruggieri's previous classes. The results showed substantial improvement in not only letter grades, but in overall accountability for student learning, product creation, and student ... ...

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