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The Change of Attitudes Toward Standardized Tests
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Standardized Tests as Effective Tools for Improvement
Ballard, Kelli N., and Bates, Alan. "Making a Connection between Student Achievement, Teacher Accountability, and Quality Classroom Instruction." The Qualitative Report 13.4 (2008): 560. Academic OneFile. Web. A study that investigates the relationship between classroom instruction and standardized tests. The results reveal that standardized tests function as effective tools for improvement, and as a method of providing comparison between student’s learning and performances. -
Standardized Tests as a Simplified Method of Measuring Student Success
Dodge, Arnold. “Heuristics and NCLB Standardized Tests: A Convenient Lie” International Journal of Progressive Education (2009). ERIC. Web. A journal that claims that the average citizen has trouble comprehending the nonlinear nature of a student’s development, and that standardized tests offer a oversimplified method of measuring the success of American schools. In addition, the tests cause students stress and pressure, and they require great finances. -
Test Taking Techniques and Poor Test Security
Phelps, Richard P. “Teach to the Test?” The Wilson Quarterly 4 (2011): 38. Academic OnFile. Web. A too great amount of school hours and resources are spent on teaching students time saving, test taking techniques, rather than teaching them the actual content of the exams. Also, the security for the standardized tests shows to be alarmingly poor. -
Standardized Test's effect on Critical Thinking and Creativity
Chomsky, Noam and Robichaud, Arianne. “Standardized Testing as an Assault on Humanism and Critical Thinking in Education.” Radical Pedagogy 11.1 (2014): 3. Educational Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. Standardized tests limit students' ability to develop critical thinking, creativity, and their interest in learning the skill of proceeding on their own.