Standardized tests are exams given to students at the end of each academic year. The results are used to determine whether or not students move to the next grade level. As our society places more emphasis on education, many school districts, along with the federal government, are using standardized tests to ensure that students receive the best education possible, and we should support this.
First, these tests are given statewide and nationwide, thereby setting a strong standard for all schools to follow. In order to advance, students are required to achieve a minimum score that shows they have acquired the basic, necessary skills of their level. Teachers must therefore emphasize the appropriate material or face the possibility that their students will not pass. This pressure nearly guarantees that students, regardless of environment or background, receive a standard, quality education.
In addition, with these exams, schools become more accountable for the success of their students. By averaging the scores of students, the quality of education of different schools can be compared. With this information, state and federal governments can identify those schools with exceptional results and reward them accordingly as well as identify those performing poorly and offer the necessary aid or take other appropriate actions to help them improve.
Finally, the results of these exams can be used to provide help to those students who need it most. Simply moving children into the next grade level because of age and not ability has long been a staple of most academic institutions. This social promotion needs to end. With these tests, promotion to the next level will be only for those students who pass and show the necessary ability to move forward while those who don’t pass will stay behind to receive more assistance.
The reading claims that we should support the standardized tests in schools to ensure that students receive the best education and provides three reasons of support. The professor states that there is no reason to use them and they will not help students to improve their score, and he refutes each of author's reasons.
To begin, the article avers that these tests are given statewide and nationwide, thereby setting a strong standard for all schools to follow. In contrast, the lecturer opposes this point by explaining that this will push teachers to teach same materials in all schools. They will tell teacher without knowing style of material.
Second, the reading asserts that with these exams, schools become more accountable for success of their students. However, the professor counters this point by saying that student will punish students under this system. It actually may create a negative environment instead of improvement.
Last but not least, the article posits that the results of these exams can be used to provide help to those students who need it most. Conversely, the lecturer refutes this point by discussing that students who don't pass the exam will frustrated because they might be sick or the school has different style that lead to fail some students in the test. In fact, he states that these test will not help students by keeping them in the same level.
that students who don't pass the exam will frustrated
that students who don't pass the exam will be frustrated
because they might be sick or the school has different style that lead to
because they might be sick or the school has different styles that lead to
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what does it mean '...that student will punish students under this system.'?
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