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Source: The Test Under Stress
Author: Tony Scwartz
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Topic: S.A.T.
Note: Teaching to the test is a problem and a solution. |
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Card #1
Source: The Test Under Stress
Author: Tony Schwartz
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Topic: S.A.T.
Note: S.A.T. has been an arguably the most important test for U.S. high school students. |
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Card #3
Source: Teach to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
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Topic: Teaching to the Test
Note: Poll asked if the encouragement of standardized tests will make the teachers teach to the test instead of teaching the subject. |
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Card #4
Source: Teach to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
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Topic: Teaching to the Test
Note: Teaching to the test can be good or bad |
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Card#5
Source: Teach to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
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Topic: Teaching to the test
Note: "What about all the time spent on schooling students in the techniques of test taking--how to fill in answer sheet bubbles, whether to guess or not, what to do when time runs, and so on." |
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Card #6
Source: Teach to the Test
Author:Richard P. Phelps
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Topic: Teaching to the Test
Note: Lots of class time to teach them the test |
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Class #7
Source: Teaching to the Test
Arthur: Richard P. Phelps
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Topic: Teaching to the Test
Note: Should only take a day or two to teach |
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Card #8
Source: Teaching to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
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Topic: Teaching to the Test
Note: People are now attempting to compromise a set of guidelines to secure the test better. |
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Card #9
Source: Report Cards Won't Be As Easy As A, B, C Now
Author: Kevin Sieff
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Topic: Getting good grades
Note: "The letter grades stamped on report cards across America, log symbols of academic success or failure, are vanishing from many schools in the Washington area and beyond." |
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Card #10
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: Money on Education
Note: U.S. spends lots of money on education |
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Card #11
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: The No Child Left Behind Act
Note: No child is left behind in the way of education |
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Card #12
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: No Child Left Behind Act
Note: More pressure on teachers |
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Card #13
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: No Child Left Behind Act
Note: standardized tests are used to show the progress of the student learning. |
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Card #14
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: No Child Left Behind Act
Note: If the school shows decline in the learning and the test taking the school has a decline in funds from the state. |
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Card #15
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: No Child Left Behind Act
Note: Some schools make graduating students take an exit exam before graduating. |
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Card #16
Source: Educational Tests and Measurements
Author: Sirs
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Topic: No Child Left Behind Act
Note: Holds school accountable for the students test taking |
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Card #17
Source: States Test Education Law
Author: Stephanie Banchero
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Topic: Odds with each other
Note: Wisconsin Gov. at odds with state chief Tony Evers because of budget cuts vouchers and teachers. |
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Card #18
Source: States Test Education Law
Author: Stephanie Banchero
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Topic: Common Ground
Note: Wisconsin Gov. found common ground with Tony Evers with the No Child Left Behind Act |
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Card #19
Source: States Test Education Law
Author: Stephanie Banchero
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Topic: School Failures
Note: G. W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind Act has been looked at badly for basically telling the schools that they are failing. |
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Card #20
Source: States Test Education Law
Author: Stephanie Banchero
Page: 2 |
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Topic: Tests
Note: Water down standardized testing. |
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Card #21
Source: Measuring What Matter
Author: Jonathan Pollard
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Topic: Failure
Note: Today, test scores are quoted by newspapers; they are used as the primary criteria for judging the successor failure of students, teachers, and school. |
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Card #22
Source: Measuring What Matters
Author: Jonathon Pollard
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Topic: Officials
Note: Furthermore, they are used by public official to impose their will upon the educational system. |
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Card #23
Source: Do Standardized Tests Reflect Students Learning in Schools
Author: Patrick Ledesma
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Topic: Albert Einstein
Note: "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. |
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Card #24
Source: Do Standardized Tests Reflect Students Learning in School
Author: Patrick Ledesma
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Topic: Student Learning, Student Achievement Report Task Force
Note: "What is tested does count, but much of what counts cannot be tested |
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Card #25
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Author: Fair Test
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Topic: Tests to get into school
Note: Administration use tests to let kids into school |
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Card #26
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Author: Fair Test
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Topic: Why Standardized Testing
Note: To help administration tell where to put kids and to tell if the have learning disability, retardation and other handicaps. |
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Card #27
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Author: Fair Test
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Topic: Why Standardized Testing
Note: To help administration tell if a kid has the ability to skip a grade or even graduate. |
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Card #28
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Author: Fair Test
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Topic: Whats Wrong With Standardized Testing
Note: The Standardized tests are not accurate all the time |
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Card #29
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Arthur: Fair Test
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Topic: Whats Wrong With Standardized Testing
Note: "Retention in grade, or flunking or leaving a student back, is almost always academically and emotionally harmful, not helpful." |
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Card #30
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Author: Fair Test
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Topic: Who's hurt most
Note: "Students from low-income and minority-group backgrounds are more likely to be retained in grade, placed in a lower track, or put in special or remedial education programs when it is not necessary." |
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Card #31
Source: How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Author: Fair Test
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Topic: Who's hurt most
Note: "They are more likely to be given a watered-down or 'Dummied-down' curriculum, based heavily on rote drill and test practice." |
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Card #32
Source:How standardized testing damages education
Author:Fair Test
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Topic: Whose hurt most
Note:White middle upper income backgrounds placed in t.a.g. |
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Card #33
Source:How standardized testing damages education
Author:Fair Test
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Topic:Teaching to the test
Note:Depends on test |
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Card #34
Source:How standardized testing damages education
Author:Fair Test
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Topic:Teaching to the test
Note:narrows the curriculum, students concentrate on memorizing facts |
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Card #35
Source:How standardized testing damages education
Author:Fair Test
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Topic:accountability
Note:schools become accountable to a completely unregulated testing industry |
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Card #36
Source:How standardized testing damages education
Author:Fair Test
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Topic:Evaluate students
Note:multiple choice |
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Card #37
Source:What's Wrong With Standardized Tests?
Author:
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Topic:Fair
Note:not really |
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Card #38
Source:What's Wrong With Standardized Tests?
Author:
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Topic:Fair
Note:reward the ability of quickly answer questions not requiring lots of thought. |
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Card #39
Source:What's Wrong with standardized testing?
Author:
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Topic:Fair
Note:Encourages narrow curriculum, outdated methods of instruction, and harmful practices such as retention in grade and tracking |
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Card #40
Source:What's wrong with standardized testing?
Author:
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Topic:multiple choice
Note: very poor way to measure students performance |
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Card #41
Source: What's wrong with standardized testing?
Author:
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Topic: help to teachers
Note:not really they don't help much so teachers don't use them much |
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Card #42
Source: What's wrong with standardized testing?
Author:
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Topic: better ways
Note: observation, documentation of student work, and performance-based assessment, direct evaluation of student |
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Card #43
Source:Standardized Testing and its victims
Author: Alfie Khon
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Topic: Standardized testing
Note: swelled and mutated |
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Card #44
Source:Wrong Tests wrong consequences
Author:
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Topic: Excessive Drilling
Note: Essentially impossible to raise students grades on insensitive tests |
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Card #45
Source: measuring what matters least
Author: Jonathan Pollard
Page: 1 |
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Topic: what tests are used for
Note: political issue |
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Card #46
Source: Teaching to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
Page: 4 |
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Topic: Harmful
Note: teaching to the test was said to be cheating |
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Card #47
Source: Teaching to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
Page: 4 |
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Topic: Harmful
Note: can avoid cheating if rotating tests frequently |
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Card #48
Source: Teaching to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
Page: 5 |
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Topic: Eliminate
Note: "Damned if you do, damned you in you don't" a bind for teachers |
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Card #49
Source: Teaching to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
Page: 5 |
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Topic: Setting things right
Note: Common Core States Standards Initiative for k-12 begins in 2014. |
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Card #50
Source: Teaching to the Test
Author: Richard P. Phelps
Page: 5 |
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Topic: Setting things right
Note: sponsored by National Governers Association (voluntary) Standards on reading, math, and trying to come to agreement on science and math |
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