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4 simple strategies to help students ace standardized tests

eSchool News

Standardized tests can be hard on students. Many of us still remember the frustration and anxiety we experienced when we were younger and sat down for our first round of testing. To make matters worse, it’s fairly common for students who are doing well academically to find themselves stymied by a single bad testing experience.

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Standardized tests in their current format are ‘incredibly antiquated’

The Hechinger Report

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. Here’s what they had to say.

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To test or not to test? Educators weigh the value of standardized testing during a pandemic

The Hechinger Report

And some parents may have figured it wasn’t worth the effort or risk, since the state has temporarily waived a requirement that students pass the test to advance a grade, said Machelle Kline, the district’s chief accountability officer. Students in a third-grade class at a California elementary school participate in silent reading.

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Understanding Standardized Assessments that Test Depth of Knowledge

eSpark

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. The results of these formative tests can help inform lesson plans and PD sessions. Smarter Balanced.

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OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’

The Hechinger Report

Should we resume standardized testing of students this spring? Policymakers place great stock in standardized test scores. The report touched off a movement toward standards-based accountability: holding school districts, schools and even teachers accountable for the academic performance of their students.

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5 Mistakes that Schools Do That Hurt Standardized Test Scores

The CoolCatTeacher

Brad Johnson @drbradjohnson talks about the mistakes schools make that hurt their standardized test scores. Consider this feedback as you prepare to administer testing this spring. In today’s show, Brad discusses standardized testing mistakes schools make. Perspective on testing. Listen Now.

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OPINION: The power of unfair standardized tests is finally, thankfully diminishing

The Hechinger Report

The College Board and ACT will still continue to offer these tests and to contend that test scores can provide value to admissions offices. But the power that these tests and the companies that profit from them once held in the college admissions landscape is forever diminished. Test scores are a lazy sorting mechanism.

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