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Hello, everyone.
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My name is Mia and this is my presentation on how standardized testing is bias.
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Now, before I get into this,
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I'd like to say that standardized testing is biased in many different ways
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and I'm only going to be giving a few examples
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and um these tests were created as a like one size fits all type thing.
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When we all know that depending on where you're from
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and what your background is,
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your education can vary,
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vary by a lot depending on if you're
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from a more poor neighborhood or wealthier neighborhood.
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But like I said, that's only like one example. Now,
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Professor Joseph
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Suarez uh is a sociology professor at Lake Forest University and is a very
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vocal critic on the use of standardized tests in college in the college.
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Admi
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administration process.
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His research has shown that
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lower income and minority students have disadvantages that come from
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a lack of diversity at four year colleges and believes that
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GPA S would be at a better gauge uh of
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a student's success rather than their standardized test scores.
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He has found that there
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are between SAT and AC T scores.
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There's a large and growing demographic disparities by race,
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gender and family income source as 2015.
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Whereas GPA has shown no correlation between family income and background
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overall scores. Whereas SARS only looked at SAT and AC T.
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Uh what I like about
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uh Professor Rebecca is that she looked
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at multiple different standardized testing scores.
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So from high school exit exams to the two thousands, 2000
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and a ep mathematic results as well as SAT and AC T of course.
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And I would like to look into the AC T data that she collected.
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She found
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in her research. Now, this was from 2001. So it's a little outdated but
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uh those that came from a family with
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uh average family income over $100,000 their sat score was around a 23.4
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for citizens that had come from a family with
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an average income of 18,000 or less, only had a score of 18.1.
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That right there is
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uh hard to li hard to hear. Um
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Obviously,
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this just proves that there is a big,
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like I had said before, depending on where you're from
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and what neighborhood you are in. Uh
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money matters, money matters,
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English language learners.
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So, Kate Menken is a assistant professor at the Queen's College.
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Uh I'm sorry, professor of linguistics at the Queen's College
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of the city of University of New York.
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Uh She is a former English as a second language teacher
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and has been working with English language learners for
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many, many years.
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And she believes that these tests have very negative impacts on
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uh ell students
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as in like dropping out of high school or dropping out of college due to the fact that
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these standardized tests are so hard
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and
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uh these students are at a disadvantage
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because English is not their first language.
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And uh these high stakes tests are really just,
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I'm sure you all know based on your own experiences
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that
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the wording on some of
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the tests can be very tricky. And
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if English isn't your first language, it's going to be even harder
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conclusion.
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So there, like I said,
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there are many different vices that come with standardized testing and
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low income ESL and minority minority students are just a few examples.
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But
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imagine if
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these tests didn't have so much of a weight when applying to colleges,
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uh imagine
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how many more kids would apply and
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get degrees and that would benefit society as a whole. So
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I think standardized testing needs to change.
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Um
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So it,
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I don't know what the word is,
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is modified for all students
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or is modified in a way that benefits all students that come from hard backgrounds
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and um
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from wherever, all over the country,
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whether or not English is their first language or not
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anyways, this is my
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uh presentation. I hope you all have a good night.