Standardized testing

College entrance exams (SAT & ACT), part of the standardized testing debate, have pros & cons. Arguments for keeping the SAT based on personal experiences. Will your SAT or ACT score get you into the best college or university?

Tests can only measure knowledge & facts. They can never measure the true potential and quality of a person.

Hey all! So this week has been a very short week for me. We had President's Day off, and then the "Snowpocolypse" hit Kansas. No school Thursday or Friday for me! While I know I will have to pay for the gift of time later, I am very thankful to be drinking my morning coffee at a much slower pace than normal today. Especially because the coffee goes well with the almond cookies I made yesterday. You can find them here. I added a 1/2 a stick of butter and an extra egg to the recipe, as I…

Tomorrow, my kiddos will be taking the Reading OAA! It’s crazy how I can simultaneously feel excited, nervous, relieved, and exhausted during testing week! It’s quite a rush of emotions. 🙂 Honestly, at the moment, I’m feeling flat out drained. Drained, but optimistic! We had a normal day until around 2:30 when our school aired …

Here are 10 terms students should know heading into a standardized test (words may vary depending on your state test). Download the 10 ELA Test Terms To Know Reference Sheet and review the words with students until you're confident they understand their meaning.

Recently, the Atlanta, Georgia cheating scandal has been in the news as many of the people involved have been convicted, and incredibly sent to prison. This is insane. I thought prison was a place for people who were dangerous or who committed some serious crime.

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Testing season is upon us. Yuck. We all have experience with standardized tests, for some of us starting all the way back in elementary school. I will admit it…at times when I was tired of …

The seventh-century Chinese emperor Yangdi is usually remembered as a megalomaniac who led his newly united nation into a series of debilitating wars. But Yangdi’s real legacy is his development of the world’s first standardized testing system. The idea was to locate China’s most talented rural sch...

No one wants a standardized mind anyway...

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SAT & ACT Tests

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Answering questions in the wrong order and being too creative can hurt your standardized test scores.

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SAT is distinguished college admission test that allow the student show colleges what he/she knows and how well the student can apply that knowledge. SAT is a 3