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1. What is the correlation between success in school vs. success as an adult? //Is// there a correlation?

2. Brief History - Standardized Testing

3. Dan Fletcher, TIME

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5. Website; accessed May 24th, 2014

6. **S:** SAT, ACT, Standardized tests standardized tests have today across America.
 * O:** High School students are getting ready to take the ACT in December of 2009, prompting the author to delve into a brief history of standardized tests.
 * A:** American students who will have to take standardized tests, readers of TIME
 * P:** To explain how the idea of standardized testing came about, along with its counterparts (such as the IQ test), and explain the reach that
 * S:** Dan Fletcher
 * T:** Informative, succinct, sympathetic

7. The article first talks about how the idea of standardized testing came about, dating all the way back to China a few centuries back. Furthermore, the article tracks its development through the Western world across time, as well as the subsequent development of a standardized test of intelligence and the applications of these tests in various fields. The beginnings of the SAT and ACT are also brought up, and their influence across America is analyzed. The abrupt conclusion gives a sympathetic note to students that will be able to leave standardized testing behind once they enter college.

8. Fletcher claims that there is a long history behind the idea of standardized testing, and that the history has a large impact on how standardized testing is implemented today.

9. Fletcher's claims about the popularity of the SAT and ACT are easily backed up with legitimate evidence, and his look into history demonstrates an extensive knowledge into the development of standardized tests.

10. "...stu dents in the U.S. are taking more standardized tests than ever before, and at ages long before college beckons." "In the Western world, examiners usually favored giving essays, a tradition stemming from the ancient Greeks' affinity for the Socratic method. But as the Industrial Revolution (and the progressive movement of the early 1800s that followed) took school-age kids out of the farms and factories and put them behind desks, //standardized examinations emerged as an easy way to test large numbers of students quickly.//" "But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment." " ...one of the main criticisms of President George W. Bush's 2001 No Child Left Behind education reform was its expansion of state-mandated standardized testing as means of assessing school performance. Now most students are tested each year of grade school as well."