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    The document summarizes a student project that surveyed teachers and students at AMES about their opinions on standardized testing. They collected responses from 43 teachers and students through surveys distributed by counselors. Most students (84.62%) felt standardized tests like SAGE were inadequate for measuring ability. Over half of teachers (52.94%) also felt standardized testing was not an effective use of time. The conclusions were that too much time is spent on standardized testing, the ACT is more popular than SAGE among students, and teachers had more mixed views than students on standardized testing.

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    The document summarizes a student project that surveyed teachers and students at AMES about their opinions on standardized testing. They collected responses from 43 teachers and students through surveys distributed by counselors. Most students (84.62%) felt standardized tests like SAGE were inadequate for measuring ability. Over half of teachers (52.94%) also felt standardized testing was not an effective use of time. The conclusions were that too much time is spent on standardized testing, the ACT is more popular than SAGE among students, and teachers had more mixed views than students on standardized testing.

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    The document summarizes a student project that surveyed teachers and students at AMES about their opinions on standardized testing. They collected responses from 43 teachers and students through surveys distributed by counselors. Most students (84.62%) felt standardized tests like SAGE were inadequate for measuring ability. Over half of teachers (52.94%) also felt standardized testing was not an effective use of time. The conclusions were that too much time is spent on standardized testing, the ACT is more popular than SAGE among students, and teachers had more mixed views than students on standardized testing.

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    Do the students and teachers of

    AMES find standardized testing


    effective?
    By Dylan Winger and Joseph Michaels
    Why?
    Joseph: Dylan came up with the question, and I thought that would be a interesting
    topic to explore further. I also heard how everybody always talked horribly about the
    SAGE, I wanted to see if that was actual opinion

    Dylan: I was personally only interested in teacher opinion, the student thing came
    about because we needed something to compare it to.
    Data Collection.
    We made two surveys and gave them to the councillors, from there they sent it to the
    staff and students of A.M.E.S. In total we got 43 responses in total, 17 teachers, and 26
    students.
    What are we comparing?
    Teacher and students. Because they are the two groups directly
    affected by standardised testing.
    The Data (Students).
    84.62% of the students surveyed believe that the SAGE isnt adequate for testing
    student ability. (15.38% said it was)

    50% said the the ACT wasnt effective, while 26.92% said is was, and 23.08% havent
    taken it yet.

    When we asked How does your opinion of standardized testing effect the amount
    of effort you put into standardized tests? these were out responses
    The Data (Teachers).
    When we asked do you believe standardized testing is an effective use of time
    52.94% of teachers responded with no, 26.92% responded with yes, and 23.08%
    responded with unsure.

    We asked Do you believe that standardized testing is an effective tool for testing
    student ability?
    The Data (Teachers).
    We asked teachers for whether or not the scores they got on their finals and
    standardized tests matched up, the SAGE is the top one the ACT is the bottom
    one.
    Conclusions.
    We believe that the data shows that:

    Too much time is spent on standardized testing.

    The ACT is much more popular than the SAGE.

    And teachers are much more mixed on this than students.


    What we would do different
    We would change the wording of the questions to make them more clear.

    I (Dylan) would also try to get the survey out faster.


    References
    Survey Monkey
    THE END!

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