... is being measured by the wrong yardstick, those evaluations are apt to be in error"(Educational Leadership ). The main thing at which standardized tests are effective is rating a school or state against another. When we see how pointless such correlations are, the means by which they are ... do not reflect nicely. Standardized testing shows, "systems that simply pressure teachers to raise scores on one test (or one set of tests in a few subjects) are not likely to work as advertised"(Koretz). Standardized testing encourages competition between teachers in the school. The ... author Anya...

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... teacher. The focus of this paper is on high-stakes standardized testing in order to receive teacher certification, either provisional or permanent, and more specifically the implications of these tests on non-native English speakers. We argue that any standardized exam inherently holds cultural and language biases, which adversely affect the success rate of minority students and pre-service ... fluency. "Unless the students taking the test are proficient in the language of the test, their performance will only represent a modest sample of their true knowledge. Even when standardized tes...

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... children, and money for education. Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. This gap appears before kindergarten, and it persists into adulthood. It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still score ... aptitude is the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The SAT was developed in the 1930s to help selective colleges identify talented students from mediocre high schools who performed poorly on tra...

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