http://www.bedrugfree.net/SAT.pdf
(around 20 pages)
- This document questions what use the SAT has. It asks "what is it that the SAT measures? The answer is not so clear, and therein lies one of the main problems with the SAT. If we cannot be sure what it is that the SAT measures, how can we then use it to determine something as important as one’s entire future?" This point is extremely important since high schoolers spend hours and hours preparing for a test that might not show their real potential. When the SAT was created, it was supposed to test potential for college success, not intelligence or knowledge. To some degree it does benefit home schooled children and students of poorer schools. But it is getting to be influenced by the degree of preparation. The underprivileged could use their SAT scores to make a level playing field with students from better schools but those students in better schools have access to better study material, giving them and unfair advantage.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Research Paper Sources
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids/2011/12/05/gIQApTDuUO_blog.html
- Valerie Strauss features an article written by Marion Brady. Her friend, a successful adult with "a big house in a good part of town. Paid-for condo in the Caribbean. Influential friends". But when he attempted to take standardized tests that are required of high school students he was shocked to find that "something is seriously wrong. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate". Yet he got a 62% on reading section and guessed on most of the math section. Ir brings up the question of the real worth of these tests in content and the way they are used.
http://www.economist.com/node/15580109
- Here, the No Child Left Behind policy uses standardized tests to determine the level of achievement of kids in Georgia. The test defines their intelligence. In this way it looses its meaning as "13 teachers in Georgia were punished for cheating, including the principal and assistant principal at one elementary school". The test is only a way to boost the school's image not increase the children's knowledge.
- Valerie Strauss features an article written by Marion Brady. Her friend, a successful adult with "a big house in a good part of town. Paid-for condo in the Caribbean. Influential friends". But when he attempted to take standardized tests that are required of high school students he was shocked to find that "something is seriously wrong. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate". Yet he got a 62% on reading section and guessed on most of the math section. Ir brings up the question of the real worth of these tests in content and the way they are used.
http://www.economist.com/node/15580109
- Here, the No Child Left Behind policy uses standardized tests to determine the level of achievement of kids in Georgia. The test defines their intelligence. In this way it looses its meaning as "13 teachers in Georgia were punished for cheating, including the principal and assistant principal at one elementary school". The test is only a way to boost the school's image not increase the children's knowledge.
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