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WITH NUMBER TWO PENCILS IN HAND
Public Policy December 10, 2001 Each year students across the nation are forced into rooms where no talking is allowed. They come equipped with number two pencils and a year’s preparation. They are there to take a standardized test. In Texas this test is called the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. Many students walk into this test knowing that they will pass and knowing that their time would be better spent in thousands of different areas. Other students come in highly anxious, knowing that not passing the test means that they will not graduate. As they walk in everyone discusses the stupidity of the test, and the desire to be anywhere but there. These discussions start as soon as students start taking these tests, in the first grade. As the students get older, the conversations become more complicated, analyzing all of the problems behind the test: the test’s low caliber of difficulty, the high-stakes of the test, and teaching just to pass the test. Many states throughout the United States have installed a nationally recognized test to give to their students. These tests allow students across many different states to be compared. Originally Texas did use one of these nationally recognized tests. However, in 1980, they stopped using such tests and began to create a test of their own. This test slowly evolved into the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, which was adopted in 1990. The idea behind this test was to specifically measure the elements that the Texas Education Code finds essential in each grade level. The test is retaken annually in grades three through eight, and an exit level test is given in the tenth grade. Students must pass the tenth grade test before graduation; therefore, they retake it every year until they pass it. (1997, Judson) The State Board of Education (SBOE) oversees all of the procedures for the creation of the test, along with the rest of the Texas educationa... Please login to view comments from other users.
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