Apr 13, 2010
You are just a test score! All classes answer
This weekend I gave the ACT national test. In the room I supervised, I had four older students taking the test. Apparently, if you are an adult student with no college credits, you must take the ACT test to be admitted to a four year college. With the economy the way it is, there are more adult students trying to get into school. These adult students were scared. As the high school students finished tests early, I saw the adult eyes look around in panic. I had one woman who was so "out of it" that she dad difficulty with even bubbling in the answers in the correct place. I feel if my high school students feel the pressure, these adults must really feel horrible. It is hard for adults to do school. I went back as an adult to get my teaching credential. Not only did family commitments make studying more difficult, but I forgot how to do math. I failed the math Praxis because I could not remember how to do geometry. I had to review for a summer and retake my math Praxis test before a could be admitted to a teaching program. In this entry, please tell how standardized test make you feel. Also, tell me how you think those adults taking the ACT must have felt. Then state if you feel standardized testing is a fair way to evaluate students for potential college success and why?
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While taking thses test in March I was a nervous wreck. When I say I was extremely nervous I was nervous.I do not know how the state expects students to excell on these test when most of the material on the test was not presented in class. If I were an adult retaking this test I would feel like a dummy if I got anything lower than a 21 because I'm an adult. But if I couldn't read the material correctly then something is wrong. Overall I would feel like a stupid adult if I had someone hovering over me and telling me I was doing something wrong. I am reataking the ACT test only because I was nervous and my nervousness had affected me test.
When I took the ACT i was very comfortable. I had a goodnite sleep and a nice breakfast. I guess what i did wrong was not study even though i got a decent score for my first time. If I was taking the test as a adult i would feel embararrased because I should be more expierenced than younger students. I am retaking the test because i feel i can do alot better because i am smarter than what this test shows.
Standardized tests doesn't make me feel like nothing. If I know I have a test to take, I would study heavily depending on how hard the test is. I don't have any emotions about a test. I don't think the adults were very happy with themselves. They may have felt disappointed about their age and still ina testing environment with teenagers.
Standardized testing is very fair to me. When I had to take the ACT I was prepared to take it. At the beginning of the school year I had a ACT prep class. The evaluation for standardized testing is fair in my opinion; I don't break down about big test. I stay calm and cool about all test; I do what I suppose to do.
I do not like the idea of these Standardized tests because I think that it is unfair. They give you a limited amount of time to do all of this work. If you are giving me a timed test without enough time to figure out the problems then you are not judging me on how smart I am or what I am capable of, you are evaluating me on how well I can guess in a small amount of time. If colleges want to evaluate what we know then they should do an admissions test to get into a school. That would be a fair way to judge the students.Those tests stressed me out to the point where I thought I did terrible. I can only imagine how the adults must have felt. They have been out of school for a while so I know that most of this was new to them. Students have been studying this for months on end and we were still worried about it.
In my opinion, I felt that the test was hard because I was so nervous and ambitiously scared that I might not pass the test. When the test started, by me being so nerous and scared, I forgot everything I new on the test. Being nervous, scared, and having a low self-esteem about passing the test really affected me. I feel that the way the state notice students by their ACT scores is not the right way to know students epectations. I feel that the state jugde students intelligence without taking the time out to meet the student in person, to really understand the students potential and real intelligence and probably get to know the person personality, so they could get a better understanding of the person. When my teacher told me about the adults that had to take the ACT, I think they was very nervous because they probably did not take the ACT or they did not remember anything on the ACT test.
When I took this test back in March, I will admit that i was very nervous. I felt very uncomfdortable in that situation. When I went to take the test, I felt very ill-prepared. Most of the material on the test was not taught in the classroom. During the test I had a hard time trying to understand how the state expect students to do well on this test when material on the test is not presented within the classroom.
If I were an adult taking this exam I will definitely feel out of place. I will feel less than a person if I had an instructured who is in my age group or older telling me to turn my cell phone off or telling that I was doing something. I definetly plan on retaking the ACT exam. The reason that I am retaking the exam is because I was extremely nervous during the exam. My nervous is afffected me in a huge way. When I take the exam again I will make sure that I am calm, cool, and collected.
Standardized testing makes me extremely nervous. For some reason testing makes me crazy. No matter how much I prepare, when I get the test in front of me I forget everything. I know that the adults in the room had to be nervous. After not attending school for a long period of time, you are bound to forget a few things. Standardized testing should not be used to measure student's potential for college and success. Sometimes testing conditions influence how people perform and that is not fair to determine their future on these circumstances.
When taking the A.C.T it really stress me out. Just knowing that this test decides my future is what really stress me out. Once I sat down and started on the test thats when I really got stress out. I felt like all the studenting and practice I did was no point because none of what i stuided was on that test. What made it worse was the comments people told me about the A.C.T how they dont grade fair and its set up to fail you. if I had to do this test all over again I wouldn't because it is just to stressfull.
Standardize test aren't stressing at all to me. I believe people really just take these test to the heart because people hype them up beyond what they really are. If people didn't say things like "This test determines your life." or "This test determines what college you go to." That just builds the anxiety of students, but not just students, adults as well. Standardize test are not horrible ways of deciding whether what college you go to. Though I truly do believe that it depends on what test you take.
Standardized test make me personally feel streesed out stardardized tests especially the ACT makes it seem to me that its designed for students to fail and your Act score decides what college you attend in the future, I don't believe that such a test should decide which college because the ACT isn't fair to students. I believe that the adults that had to take the ACT were terrified because they've had no preperations and they have a very limited amount of time to complete it. I don't believe that Standardized tests can accurately evaluate students
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