The National Center for Fair and Open testing, or Fair test, believes that standardized tests like the SAT assume all test takers have backgrounds similar to white, middle-class students.
We use standardized tests to measure scholastic achievement.
In any case, the call now is for merit pay based on more objective criteria, such as students' performance on standardized tests.
We took our two daughters out of the public school system when they reached middle-school age, just as the standardized testing craze was taking hold, and put them in private schools.
Carbon residue standardized test which measures the amount of carbon left behind after pyrolysis under standard conditions.
As part of President Obama's "Race to the Top" program, standardized test scores are going to be used to determine teacher's bonuses, salaries, and which schools will receive federal grants.
Thee current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.
But it is fair to ask if it has ever really been fostered in a meaningful way in mainstream schooling (and the standardized testing movement is only making it worse).
the Los Angeles Times will publish a database of more than 6, 000 elementary school teachers ranked by their ability to improve students’ scores on standardized tests.
Consider, for example, the relative importance of standardized tests. The SAT or ACT scores of entering freshmen make up half of the important "student selectivity" score in the U.S. News formula.
Teenagers from Shanghai have the best education in the world, according to major international standardized testing in math, science and reading, the results of which were released Tuesday.
We cannot ask our teachers to perform the impossible-to teach poorly prepared children with inadequate resources-and then punish them when children perform poorly on a standardized test.
As in many states, Massachusetts elementary and high school students must pass a series of standardized tests during their scholastic careers, ultimately as a prerequisite for high school graduation.
Even if you regard standardized test results as a useful measure, homework (some versus none, or more versus less) isn't even correlated with higher scores at these ages.
