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A 5 page paper that discusses nine articles sent by the student, each of which discusses some aspect of assessing students. The overall theme is whether or not standardized testing is useful and beneficial. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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author asks the really pertinent question that all educators, legislators and even the community should be asking themselves: "Equity and High Standards: Can We Have It Both Ways?" (Northeast and
Islands Regional Educational Lab, 2000). This is a point that most authors just dont discuss and yet, it is the key to any discussion about the usefulness, fairness, etc. of
standardized testing instruments. What we do know is that these are high-stakes tests. It is also true that the schools in the United States have become increasingly more diverse
over the last two or so decades, with ever-more populations of students who need to learn English. Gottlieb (2006) reports there are more than 5 million English language learners in
our public schools, an increase of 10 percent in the decade between 1993 and 2003. These students are pretty much centered in five states although there are sprinklings in all
states (Gottlieb, 2006). When the scores of these students are incorporated into full class or full school scores, the performance of the class or school is negatively skewed. Most
of the authors agree that we use testing to obtain information about student performance (Au, 2007; Easton, 2000; Hughes, 1989). The question that permeates most of these articles is whether
or not standardized testing is the best way to obtain information about student performance. As Hughes (1980) points out, there are many different kinds of tests and standardized tests are
both valid and reliable, which means the outcomes can be trusted within a certain band of security. The issue to consider is not so much the value of standardized
tests, but the number of them young children and even high school students are subjected. Kohn (2000) comments that the use of standardized tests has swelled some monster in a
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