A Quiz on Standardized Testing

Answer the following questions and check your answers below.

 

1. According to the Pew Research Center, between 2001 and 2008 national spending on standardized testing rose from $423 million to (Pick one: $800 million, $1.1 billion, $2 billion).

         

2. According to the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Illinois at Urbana, multiple choice tests can provide (Pick one: highly reliable, moderately reliable, slightly reliable) measures of student achievement.

          

3. A study by the Center on Education Policy  reported that between 2001 and 2009, 44% of school districts reduced the time spent on history and the arts by an average of (Pick one: 20, 50, 100) minutes per week in order to focus on reading and math.

          

4. American student’s scores on the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking have (dropped or increased) between 1990 and 2011.

          

5. U.S. scores on the 2009 PISA, The Programme for International Student Assessment, place it at the (Pick One: 11th, 21st, 31^st) position globally, behind The Czech Republic and Slovenia.

          

6. Who said “Now, there’s nothing wrong with standardized testing just to give a baseline of where kids are at. Too often we’ve been using these tests to punish school. One thing I never want to see happen in schools is just teaching to the test.” (Pick One: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum)

 

Source: http://standardizedtests.procon.org

1. Answer: $1.1 billion. Source: www.pewresearch.org

2. Answer: highly reliable. Source: http://cte.illinois.edu/

3. Answer: 100 minutes. Source: http://www.cep-dc-org

4. Answer: Dropped. Source: www.wm.edu

5. Answer: 31^st. Source: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/

6. Answer: Barack Obama. Source:  http://2012election.procon.org