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Post by TreasureFinder on Feb 24, 2004 22:52:43 GMT -5
Everybody's favorite, standardized testing is coming closer and closer, ready to base all of your knowledge on one test. I had to take my english T.A.K.S. (Texas Assesment of Knowlege and Skills) today. Talk about lame. One of the questions was, "What change, if any, should be made to sentence..." One of the choices was "Change best to more better." Then, the sentence would have read, "Venus Williams was the more better tennis star at that time in California." ....yeah..... So, anybody else hate S.T.? On the science test last year, (a sample question unfortunately) was, "Which of these is alive?" Yup, us'n be smarrt in Texas!
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Post by Jaggy on Feb 24, 2004 23:42:40 GMT -5
We don't get them here, whatever they are. Oh wait, I think we do. You have to take the FSAs (Foundation Skills Assessment or something like that...) in gr 4, 7, and 10. I took the FSAs last year for numeracy and writing. The government just needs us to take it so they can have a "snapshot" of our academic level. -_-
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Post by Sektor on Feb 25, 2004 14:27:03 GMT -5
This is the dreaded test which all juniors in American schools shake in fear... For we have to take the SATs. I'm taking a course for the damn test right now. I take it the 1st of May
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Post by DRottenI on Feb 25, 2004 16:57:51 GMT -5
I dont even know what my standerized test is called anymore ;D they change the name of the test EVERY year and im not kidding last year I took the CAT6 I think it was I dont even know anymore. My teachers in the past have gotten us ready for a certain test but the next year its a competely different test ;D I dont really care because they standeriazed tests are always easy
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Post by Ghosty on Feb 25, 2004 21:36:02 GMT -5
A lot of this standardized testing comes from the "No Child Left Behind" act, and while its motive is awesome, the whole thing is really flawed. All of their systems and numbers don't have a whole lot to do with actual learning.
Oh, and standardized testing blows.
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Post by TreasureFinder on Feb 26, 2004 21:21:07 GMT -5
We had the TASS here last year, and this year we have the TAKS (as stated earlier). Our English teacher gave us a paper that described the differences between the two. The TASS focused more on elaboration while the TAKS focuses on feeling and depth. The TAKS "wants the student to use their own voice, and not another students".................um....can they tell that in the first place? It also said that you can't "teach" how to use voice (so, they're saying, either you have it, or you fail)...what complete stupid ______
A) peoples
B) people
C) poeples
D) rocks.
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Post by Sektor on Feb 27, 2004 11:20:36 GMT -5
I dont even know what my standerized test is called anymore ;D they change the name of the test EVERY year and im not kidding last year I took the CAT6 I think it was I dont even know anymore. My teachers in the past have gotten us ready for a certain test but the next year its a competely different test ;D I dont really care because they standeriazed tests are always easy  . |
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Post by Gustave on Feb 28, 2004 19:58:37 GMT -5
Haha- that's nothing. Our Govt midterm had some of the stupidest questions in the world.
1)What is the best word to describe Hitler
a) sympathetic
b) crabcakes
c) mentally retarded
d) anti-semetic
And my favorite...
2) Chief Justice Earl Warren's legacy on the ruling of Brown VS. Board has impacted us all. Describe his ruling.
Which was followed by...
3)Who was Chief Justice during the Brown VS. Board decision?
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Post by Ghosty on Feb 28, 2004 20:03:36 GMT -5
what complete stupid ______ A) peoples B) people C) poeples D) rocks. D) rocks, duh, rocks haven't learned how to fly so we know its a fact. Haha- that's nothing. Our Govt midterm had some of the stupidest questions in the world. 1)What is the best word to describe Hitler a) sympathetic b) crabcakes c) mentally retarded d) anti-semetic And my favorite... 2) Chief Justice Earl Warren's legacy on the ruling of Brown VS. Board has impacted us all. Describe his ruling. Which was followed by... 3)Who was Chief Justice during the Brown VS. Board decision? 1) B: crabcakes... mmmmmm 2) His ruling made one side win. I think... 3) Hehe i love when people make questions like that. |
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Post by Vapour on Mar 2, 2004 18:08:26 GMT -5
[glow=DarkGreen,2,300]We don't have it here. I think it is only an American thing because I've never heard of them giving it out here in Canada. What is the point of it anyways?[/glow]
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Post by SNK! on Mar 2, 2004 18:56:43 GMT -5
[glow=DarkGreen,2,300]We don't have it here. I think it is only an American thing because I've never heard of them giving it out here in Canada. What is the point of it anyways?[/glow] To "measure your intelligence" to see how the public education system is doing in educating the students, and in the SAT and ACT's case, to help colleges choose you. |
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Post by Ghosty on Mar 2, 2004 20:25:44 GMT -5
[glow=DarkGreen,2,300]We don't have it here. I think it is only an American thing because I've never heard of them giving it out here in Canada. What is the point of it anyways?[/glow] What snk said, and also for a system to measure a large group of people, because its hard to tell via only letter grades from schools, because as schools differ in difficulty, a grade A student at one could be a failure in another. Standardized tests are supposed to be there so they can rate many people against each other. |
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Post by Tsukasa on Mar 2, 2004 20:31:59 GMT -5
Um... oh, those. I'm pretty sure standardized tests are made so nobody can possibly fail. No matter how hard you try to be ignorant. I learned most of the stuff that was on the standardized test last year over 3 years ago...
Hm. Odd. I don't seem to recall anything about standardized testing this year in my school. I wonder why. Maybe because it's a "public" school that isn't part of the curriculum...
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Post by TreasureFinder on Mar 2, 2004 20:59:36 GMT -5
Well, I just remembered how the parts of my test went. We had a "reading comprehension" part (which by the way, was bull...you know what, because the first story we read had ONE SENTENCE to deal with the question. As for the other story, can you say, "Writtenbyastonedcrackhead?" ) And then an essay (which, remember children, cannot be written in a form of poetry)............yeah....darn, and I so wanted to express my story (which was made up by the way) in a form of poetry....lastly,we have the editing portion, or as I like to call it, the "Testing-whether-the-student-knows-the-difference-between-a-noun and-a-verb" portion of the test.
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