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Essay Instructions: I want to support my position that standardized testing is ruining the whole purpose of college education and how there should be better alternatives to it. I have to argue using a claim of fact, definition,cause, value, or policy just pick one of those claims and stick through it the whole paper. i need one quote per paragraph with documented sources. also i need support for my warrants and some rebuttal.

Essay Instructions: i will need a position paper on why authentic assessment is more reliable and valid than traditional standardized testing in the elementary and junior high levels.

Essay Instructions: Standardized Reading Test

Visit the website, www.alfiekohn.com. Click on “Articles” under “Teaching”. Scroll down and read the articles: Fighting the tests: A practical guide to rescuing our schools, and Standardized testing and its victims. These articles will give you more insight into what you will discover in your own research about norm-referenced tests.

Visit the SDE’s website (www.alsde.edu) to analyze the latest year SAT 10 reading scores. Once you enter the site, go to “Reports” on the left side and click on “By Schools”. Select a school system and go to the latest year scores and select “SAT 10”.

1. Latest Year
2. Stanford Achievement
3. Select a system
4. (Entire System)
5. Grade 4
6. Reading

Select categories: Special Ed, General Ed, Male, Female, Black, Hispanic, White, Limited English, Non Limited English, Free lunch, Reduced Lunch, Fully-paid Lunch. Then click on “Get Report”.

Select 5 school districts from diverse economic regions. Include Alabama. Analyze the results and determine which categories seem to have the greatest impact on test scores. In other words, which categories seem to correlate with higher test scores, and which categories seem to correlate with lower test scores? Now rank these categories. Which ones seem to have the greatest influence on percentile scores? Look hard at the top 3 influences on test scores. Now ask yourself: Is there anything I as a teacher can do? Is there anything the student can do? Are there other categories that you might be able to impact?

Thoroughly answer the questions above and weave what you garnered from the articles you read into your paper also. This should be a 3-page paper.

Essay Instructions: This paper must have at least 5 works of educational scholars on the subject such as: Alfie Kohn, Linda Darling Hammond, Linda McNeil, Howard Gardner,John Dewey,Paolo Freire etc.

Develop an analysis of the issue (standardized testing: Friend or Foe?) from at least two different viewpoints

This paper must have work cited (APA style). A reference page is required.