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 Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:39 am
There are plenty of them these days for every level of education...
graduation tests, proficiency exams, entrance exams, exit exams, the dreaded SAT and its sinister sister, the ACT...the list goes on and on
The question is, do these tests actually show how well we can preform in the given areas, or does it just test how skilled we are at filling in the little bubbles or darkening the ridiculously small brackets without going outside the lines and leaving stray marks all over the place?
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:14 am
I believe that you are correct with the whole ridiculosly small fill in spaces. These tests are meant to prove how well we learned depending on the feild...but that cant really happen if we are so worried about filling in that little bubble or bracket in perfectly because even if you do get the answer right you could end up "getting it wrong" just because of a tiny error in your marking.
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:02 am
Meh I agree in a way so many test to just to be able to go to a good college or even a house O.o! I wish their was only just one not a million
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:20 pm
Hahaha! Standardized testing is EVIL! it represents the lowest common denominator in educational practice...when the system and it's tenured, un-firable teachers no longer give a f**k about helping people and only care about padding their records with impressive looking stats.
On the other hand, Standardized Tests make me a LOT OF MONEY! I work as an ESL teacher in Korea, and people just love to lay down thick stacks of cash for me to tutor their kid who is trying to pass some standardized English test. ETS has Korea by the balls. Like any giant company, they have their hands all over politicians....and quite predictably, you have to pass ETS's Ibt TOEFL English test to get into a public university here.
Got to LOVE corruption! Get rich off those kids!
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:30 pm
i agree... you end up forgetting most of the stuff you learned because of the little bubbles and you know you have to fill them in just right or you'll be screwed. I have taken the ACT 2 times and it sucks. Half the things they have on the science and math areas i didn't know because it was all college stuff.
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:49 pm
Hey, are standardized tests still racist? I remember that was a big controversy back when I was in high school. The standardized tests were racist somehow.... I can't quite remember.
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:15 pm
The whole point of those large tests at the end of the year is to see if the students remember enough to pass next years curriculum requirements.
How that is accomplished is just plain annoying though because of the fear and stress that is loaded onto the students prior to taking them.
Ps: why hasn't anyone come up with an alternative to the way tests are taken ?
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