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standardized tests are used as a measuring stick for
student performance. your test scores decide, in part,
whether you are admitted to certain colleges. they are
also used to measure readiness for certain careers, such
as law and medicine. test scores impact the funding that
public schools receive from the federal government. do
you think that standardized tests should hold such a
standard? in your essay, decide if standardized tests are
the proper measuring stick for student performance. if, in
your opinion, they are not, describe alternatives that could
be used to measure achievement. *
think about what you will write before you begin writing. state your opinion clearly and
give three or more reasons to support your opinion. the essay should include at least six
complete sentences. check your writing for correct grammar, capital letters, punctuation,
and spelling
your answer

Explanation:

Standardized tests: You couldn’t have gotten into Pepperdine without taking at least a few of them, and even before the dreaded SAT or ACT, there was a slew of standardized tests throughout primary and secondary school.

But why?

Standardized tests began in the U.S. “as the Industrial Revolution … took school-age kids out of the farms and factories and put them behind desks, standardized examinations emerged as an easy way to test large numbers of students quickly,” according to the TIME Magazine article “Standardized Testing” published Dec. 11, 2009 by Dan Fletcher.

As time went on, the SAT and ACT tests were created to test students entering college, then when No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2001, the lucky students in grades 3 through 8 (yay us!) were required to take standardized tests every year in order to determine the quality of public education for all students, according to the PBS.org article “No Child Left Behind – The New Rules.”

The problem is, standardized tests aren’t an accurate measure of the quality of a student’s education, or even of a student’s intellect. These tests often show inherent biases. In a 2013 report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation titled “Early Warning Confirmed” describes how “researchers of the poverty/achievement connection have quantified the gap between children from low-income and wealthier families and tracked the gap’s growth over time.

An analysis of data from 19 nationally representative studies by Stanford University sociologist Sean Reardon found that the gap between children of families from the lowest and highest quartiles of socioeconomic status is more than one standard deviation on reading tests at kindergarten entry, an amount equal to roughly three to six years of learning in middle or high school.”

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