What percentage did spending on standardized testing increase between 2002 and 2008?
A. 100%
B. 160%
C. 50%
D. 25%
B. 160%
100
What country was the first to use standardized testing?
A. United States
B. China
C. Mexico
B. China
100
George Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act on Jan. 8, 2002
True
100
What country has no standardized testing?
A. Finland
B. New Zealand
C. Germany
D. France
A. Finland
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Standardized tests give information about students':
A. Grade level
B. Academic Progress
C. Family Background
D. Social life
B. Academic progress
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Math scores of students held back for low test scores increased by how much?
A. 2%
B. 9%
C. 50%
D. 22%
B. 9%
200
Who brought standardized testing to Boston?
A. George Washington
B. Thomas Edison
C. Horace Mann and Sam Howe
C. Horace Mann and Sam Howe
200
The Kansas Silent Reading Test is the hardest known multiple-choice test
False
200
Which subject(s) tends to be neglected in order to prepare for standardized tests?
A. Science
B. Social studies
C. Art
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
200
Standardized tests are able to:
A. Diagnose strengths and weaknesses
B. Show a student's GPA
C. Show student's personal beliefs
D. Show teacher's years of experience
A. Diagnose strengths and weaknesses
300
What percentage of students felt that the amount of tests they take is “about right”?
A. 71%
B. 95%
C. 15%
D. 40%
A. 71%
300
There as a documentary in 2010 about standardized testing, what was it called?
A. A B or C; Standardized Test
B. Waiting for Superman
C. The Standardized Test Craze
B. Waiting for Superman
300
Barack Obama and other leaders of teachers unions agree that schools, educators and students should be blamed for performance on tests
False
300
Considering Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory, students with which type of intelligence score better on standardized tests?
A. Analytical Intelligence
B. Creative Intelligence
C. Practical Inteligence
A. Analytical Intelligence
300
Standardized tests help:
A. Students to gain friends
B. Place students in grades/area of study
C. Teachers to see personalities of their students
D. Administrators to place teachers in classrooms
B. Place students in grades/ area of study
400
What percentage of schools meet NCLB’s goal of 100% efficiency on standardized tests?
A. 25%
B. 57%
C. 75%
D. 18%
D. 18%
400
Which of these is a name of a Standardized Test in the United States?
A. NCLB
B. IASA
C. SAT
C. SAT
400
Criterion Referencing is defined as "a scoring technique that shows a student's results in comparison to a benchmark or set standard of acceptable performance"
True
400
Students of which ethnicity consistently score higher on standardized tests?
A. Caucasian
B. African American
C. Hispanic
A. Caucasian
400
If standardized testing was eliminated, it would be difficult to:
A. judge a students progression
B. test knowledge of simple skills
C. examine a teacher's effectiveness
D. All of the above