The Debate (no.48);Standardized testing impact: socioeconomic status, intelligence measures, anxiety.

✅Do you think everyone has the same chance to do well on standardized tests? Why or why not?

Not everyone has thesame chance to do so well on standardise tests and the reason is very simple but first of all, a standardised test is a test that is been given to same set of students, under thesame atmosphere and environment, which will be marked at thesame scare rate and at thesame marking scheme and I say It's going to be very difficult for everyone to do so well on a standardise test, and remember that learning and ability of assimilation differs.

✅How do you think a student's background or environment affects their test scores?

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This question is a very important question and out of all the questions, this very one sem to be my best as far as this contest is concerned. Environment matters alot to a child learning, their backgrounds also affects their test scores. You don't expect a student who was raised, taught and educated in a village to face a student who was trained and educated in a city that has a very standard teacherd that gives the best in them to the students because the environment and level of knowledge would definitely affect their scores.

✅Are there other ways to measure intelligence besides standardized tests? What are they?

Even if there is other ways to measure intelligence apart from the standardise test method, I would love to prefer this very method because of the condition at which these students will be given the rest at thesame time, same questions and under same environment in which same scores will be used for their ratings and we must know that these results won't and can never be same.

✅Do you believe that test anxiety can impact a student's performance? How so?

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Anxiety is simply a kind of pressure that comes around which helps one to be focused though it's very normal to students whenever they are in an examination or test hall preparing for test but the whole truth is that test anxiety pushes a student to be under pressure that would make him or her fear to fail therefore, impacting positively Ona student's performance.

✅Can intelligence be defined in different ways, and how does that relate to standardized testing?

Yes, intelligence can be defined in deferent ways. A student can be tested in many ways such that the teacher or parents would know and understand the level of such a child's intelligence.

Defining a child's intelligence using somany ways relates to standardize testing because the standardize testing methods is one of the methods that is very useful when it comes to knowing or defining a child's intelligence.

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