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Standardized tests are exams given to students at the end of each academic year. The results are used to determine whether or not students move to the next grade level. As our society places more emphasis on education, many school districts, along with the federal government, are using standardized tests to ensure that students receive the best education possible, and we should support this.
First, these tests are given statewide and nationwide, thereby setting a strong standard for all schools to follow. In order to advance, students are required to achieve a minimum score that shows they have acquired the basic, necessary skills of their level. Teachers must therefore emphasize the appropriate material or face the possibility that their students will not pass. This pressure nearly guarantees that students, regardless of environment or background, receive a standard, quality education.
In addition, with these exams, schools become more accountable for the success of their students. By averaging the scores of students, the quality of education of different schools can be compared. With this information, state and federal governments can identify those schools with exceptional results and reward them accordingly as well as identify those performing poorly and offer the necessary aid or take other appropriate actions to help them improve.
Finally, the results of these exams can be used to provide help to those students who need it most. Simply moving children into the next grade level because of age and not ability has long been a staple of most academic institutions. This social promotion needs to end. With these tests, promotion to the next level will be only for those students who pass and show the necessary ability to move forward while those who don’t pass will stay behind to receive more assistance.
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There is a great deal of emphasis placed on education in our culture, but that has nothing to do with standardized tests and is no reason to use them. These exams are not tools to help students or schools, or anyone for that matter, improve. If anything, they inhibit progress, hurting schools and students alike.
To begin, forcing schools to use these tests will push them all to teach the same things. But, teachers need the freedom to address the needs of their students and these tests don’t give instructors that freedom. They tell teachers what to teach without even knowing the learning styles or interests of the different students in the thousands of different schools in which these tests are given. Put simply, these tests take the power to teach away from trained educators.
Second, students in underperforming schools will be punished whether they pass or not. You see; these tests are often used to determine how much funding schools receive. The better schools perform, the more aid they collect. However, no consideration is made for those schools in rough neighborhoods in which the poor performance of students is more a result of the negative environment than the school itself. How are these students helped when instead of receiving more of the funding they need, this system gives them less?
Third, students who don’t do well won’t be helped. Under this system, a few exams are created for hundreds of different schools with thousands of different students of differing backgrounds, learning styles, and test-taking skills. Yet, these tests determine if all of them will pass or fail. What if these students respond badly to pressure, feel ill, or test poorly? Will this system provide the kind of help these students need by failing them and keeping them in the same grade level? No.
The article states that the federal government is using standardized test to ensure that students will recieve the best education and providesthree reasons of support. However,the professor refutes the reading and says that there is no reasons to help and improve education by this inhibit progress.
First, the article states that this manner is nationwide and all students are requiered to get the minimum score. Moreover, teachers must follow the appropriate matterial to ensure their students' success. However, the professor claims that teachers need freedom to perform perferctly because there are diffrent learning styles according to diffrent intrests among thousand students of many schools.Furthermore, she states that it will take the power away from those educates professionally and trained well.
Second, the article states that there is kind of a reward for schools in strong performance and poor schools ,regardless of their environment and education quality will be considered for the necessary aid offer. However, the professor opposes that it is like a punishment manner for stuednts. She says that in this kind of rewarding, there is no considerationfor students in rough neighborhood whenever, there is the negative impact of enviornment on theri education and instead of this comparing system, there sould be more financial aid for scools in these vicinities.
Third, the author states that the promotion is only available for students who can pass the standardized exams and show their ability. Also, students who do not pass the exams need more assistance and must stay in the current level. However, the professor refutes that it does not help students who need it most. Fuethermore,
it is not logical for students who may be under pressure during the test or feel ill.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, third, well, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1526.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39222614841 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92209697838 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526501766784 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.2499525976 49.2860985944 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.166666667 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5833333333 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.16666666667 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143981588269 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599276024964 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0382335748904 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0854065380536 0.162205337803 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.028427552974 0.0443174109184 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.28 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.