Thesis+Based+research+Assignment

I decided to do research on why students are being judge based on their tests scores. Do schools concentrate on test scores more than the student's ability to perform as a person? If they do, why do they? How do schools rank students based on their scores? How does this affect students who are trying to get into college? A. Berliner, David C. "Why Rising Test Scores May Not Equal Increased Student Learning." //Dissent Magazine// 3 Nov. 2008: n. pag. Web. 22 Sept. 2009. . 1. Some schools change the level of how students can be ranked because the school might not have a high test score average. 2. Some say that the way test are laid out, they are not asking questions that shows a student’s ability to answer questions. 3. In schools with lower test score averages, they require some students to retake tests in order to bust the average of the school. 4. The author feels that schools are basing a student’s ability on tests scores and they shouldn’t be. He feels like too many schools are pressuring students to do better and because of that many tend to do worst. 5. “Pushing out the weakest students helps to raise the scores at a school or in a district. School administrations drop or push out students through various means: they suspend certain children, or move them to another school mid-year so that their scores will not have to be counted” (Berliner 3). B. "Focus on Social and Emotional Health Raises Test Scores." //The Online News Hour// 21 July 2009: n. pag. Web. 22 Sept. 2009. . 1. Teachers in some schools are connecting with their class to help ease their feelings which helps students perform better. 2. Teachers realize that students are all on different levels but when it comes to raising their scores, teachers have to be able to work with their students in a calm and patient matter. 3. Students are getting the chance to talk to their teachers as a group and discuss their problems, which teachers notice that it’s helping their overall performance. 4. “If they focus on test scores, they're focusing too much on data and numbers. But if you have this class, when they become adults, they'll have better skills, they'll have better relationships, they'll know what to do when there's conflict” (//Focus on Social and Emotional Health Raises Test Scores// 2). C. Hopper, Don W. "Standardized Testing and Assessment Improve Education." //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. Ed. Mary E. Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Web. 18 Sept. 2009. . 1. Students that get involved in the school tend to do better because they are looked at differently than other students. 2. Tests improve the students’ abilities to pass their classes and get into a good college. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The author feels that testing is improving the way education works and the tests help students prepare themselves in different ways. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Since 1995 the passage rates in reading of our African American students increased from 67.6 percent passing to 88.1 percent. Hispanic students' passage rates rose from 69.3 percent to 85.7 percent. White students went from 91.9 percent to 97.4 percent passing, and our economically disadvantaged students' scores rose from 67.6 percent to 83 percent passing” (Hopper 1). D.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Shai., Bronshtein D. "Assessment Through Standardized Testing Isn't Recommended for Colleges." //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. Ed. Roman Espejo. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Web. 18 Sept. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com>. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students are becoming limited to what they can learn and study because they are studying for standardize tests 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students are becoming bored with school and most of them are not interested in college anymore because they don’t feel like they are going to pass their school’s tests 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students need help in order to get into college and tests are making their lives harder than they have to be. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “For many students, college education is an entirely private matter, undertaken with their own funds for their own purposes. The government has no justification for testing these students because they get no money from the government. Everyone in such situations who does not receive individual financial aid would still have to take the tests but would receive no direct benefit from them” (Shai 1). E.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Solley, Bobbie A. "Standardized Testing Has Negatively Impacted Public Schools." //Opposing Viewpoints: Education//. Ed. David M. Haugen. Gale Group, 2009. Web. 9 Oct. 2009. < [|http://www.find.galegroup.com] >. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students are being tested so that their schools can see if they made an improvement and find out what level they are on  2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  “No Child Left Behind Act” <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Mandatory for students in grades 4, 8, & 12 to take placement test 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Testing every year is important for the schools <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Able to see if students have been improving or not <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> See if teachers are making any progress 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Testing has caused some students to feel less motivated <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Stressing some students out 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Increases as students become older 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Causes some students to drop out or become home schooled <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Telling some students that they are not good enough 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> They aren’t as smart as everyone else <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> iii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students don’t want to continue their education 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Lead to students failing and getting held back 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Tests are taking away teachers ability to teach their own way <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Teachers have not been able to teach their way because of test 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Want students to be prepared <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Want students to enjoy school 6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The author feels that schools are putting too much pressure on students to pass their test, that the student loses interest in school. 7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “High-stakes testing not only negatively affects motivation and learning, it also undermines the curriculum. Because of the increased pressure on teachers for their children to do well on standardized tests, the curriculum has been narrowed. The curriculum, and thus instructional time, has shifted to only those areas that are to be tested” (Solley 2). F.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> "Standardized Testing Has Serious Limitations." //Opposing Viewpoints Resource// //Center//. Ed. Roman Espejo. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Web. 18 Sept. 2009. <http://find.galegroup.com>. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students have limits to what they are learning in school, which is not preparing them for college <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Studying too hard in order to pass tests 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> causing them to not pay attention to the academic skills that they will need to move forward with their education <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Causing more students to become less creative and narrow their thinking ability 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> students are working too hard to finish sections quickly they don’t elaborate on what they are trying to say 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Standardize tests are causing some teachers to disagree about how tests are laid out <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Not enough information to help them figure out what they should do next <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> They don’t know how to help most students because they feel like their tests scores are not showing what they can do  1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  students have more potential than the tests show 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The author feels that students are not getting the full advantage out of school if they have to take tests. Students are getting judged and shouldn’t be because of what they get on a test. 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Standardized, multiple choice tests were not originally designed to provide help to teachers. Classroom surveys show teachers do not find scores from standardized tests very helpful, so they rarely use them. The tests do not provide information that can help a teacher understand what to do next in working with a student because they do not indicate how the student learns or thinks. Good evaluation would provide helpful information to teachers” (//Standardized Testing Has Serious Limitations// 2). G.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Tomsho, Robert. "College-Entrance Test Scores Flagging." //Wall Street Journal// (Aug. 2009): n. pag. Web. 22 Sept. 2009. <http://online.wsj.com>. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Some colleges require students to take the SAT or ACT in order to be consider for admission, but scores have been decreasing over the past three years <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students aren’t passing their tests because they need more time to prepare themselves in school 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Different states are looking at tests scores as being major, but if students can’t pass the their tests, the graduation percentage will decrease 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> People feel that tests scores should be increasing at a higher rate <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students have better advantages now, so their scores should be increasing by more than 2% a year 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “The troubles are also reflected in results from the 2009 ACT, which is graded on a 1-to-36 point scale. Students averaged 21.1 points this year, flat compared with 2008 and only 0.2 points higher than in 2005” (Tomsho 2). H.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Wetzel, Bill. "No More Tests!" //SIRS Knowledge Source//. N.p., Nov.-Dec. 2002. Web. 18 Sept. 2009. [|http://sks.sirs.com]. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students are working with their parents to speak up and go against taking standardized tests <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> They don’t believe that taking tests will benefit them in their future 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Due to the testing, students are being ranked and judged by many schools and teachers <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students who fail on a test are getting all the attention from teachers 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> other students get jealous and start to fail 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students are changing the way they live because they feel that they have to live to the potential of others <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> i.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Study harder because they want to get looked at differently <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ii.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> They worry about getting into a top college that they forget that they need to get involved in things 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> some stop after school activities because they feel that they are taking their study time away from them 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “At this point, 49 states have core standards around which standardized tests are implemented. Twenty-seven of those states back up the standards in a high-stakes environment, meaning students can be held back or denied graduation based on their test scores alone” (Wetzel 3). Standardize testing is something that every student must do but when students take their test they are changing who they are as a person. They end up changing their everyday activities because they are worried about how people will judge them. Some students might not be good at taking test because of the pressure so they end up failing. Many students who don’t past their tests end up performing better as a student, while some just give up. Schools judge students because of their scores even when they know the student is very bright. Due to the fact the not all students are good test takers, schools should rate them based on their overall performance, not just their test scores. 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Students that get tested every year are being tested to see if they have learned anything and to see if they can remember their basic skills throughout the year. a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> C2, C4, E1, E3  2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  Colleges do require that their applicants take certain test, but if students don’t pass their test they won’t be able to graduate. a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> G1, G2, G4, H4   3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  Teachers are working hard everyday to connect with their students when they have to take standardize tests because the teachers have to change the way they teach in order to show that their students can pass their tests. a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> B1, B2, B3, B4, E5, F2  4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  Some people feel that students are being limited to what they can do because of the way tests are laid out and because they don’t completely show how they can perform as a person. a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> D1, F1, F3, F4   5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  Due to many students not passing their standardize tests, some school districts are changing how they grade students because every student is on a different level. a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> A1, A3, A5, G2  By doing this research I learned that students are not the only ones who don’t want to test. Some teachers and parents are starting to question how students are learning. When students work with their teachers, their teachers will be able to help them more and be able to see how the different students level out. When I start to write my paper I need to think about the people who think that standardize testing is a good thing and explain why. I need to improve my research skills by finding more sources that allow me to see how colleges look at students and why they do in that way. I thought I knew that I could prove how schools from certain areas show how their schools rank up. I wanted to give examples of schools because it would help me prove my point. I thought students stopped concentrating on other things when they have to prepare for a test, but many don’t. All of my research has helped me move forward with my project. It allowed me to see how students, teachers, and parents feel about standardize testing. It also allowed me to realize that testing is needed but it shouldn’t be the only thing that schools look at. This research is allowing me to get a back round in everything that I’m going to need to know before I go to schools to interview students.