speech outline

Title: Standardized Tests Deciding Students Future
Purpose statement: Persuade the audience that standardized testing is problematic
Thesis statement: Standardized tests give an inaccurate measure of college success
Introduction
  1. A.  According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, ““The SAT is not designed as an indicator of student achievement, but rather as an aid for predicting how well students will do in college.”
B. I took the Act/Sat multiple times trying to improve my score because I knew how much colleges looked into them.
C. Thesis:  Standardized tests give an inaccurate measure of college success
Transition: Now we will look at the three big reasons why standardized tests don’t measure college success.
Body
  1. Main point 1. ACT/SAT don’t test students on high school curriculum.
    1. The information that is on the ACT/SAT is stuff that the teachers spend about two weeks trying to teach students. Teachers are too into “teaching the test”
    2. Students spend so much time trying to learn the information on these tests and it takes away from their focus on their current school work.
  2. Main point 2. Tests only measure areas of reading, writing and math and they don’t focus on how the student learns, the student’s creativity, or the student’s collaboration skills.
  3. Main point 3. The test measures a single test performance and doesn’t pay attention to the growth that student has made over the year or years.
Solution
  1. The solution to this problem is colleges shouldn’t look at standardized test scores at all
    A. colleges don’t need ACT/SAT scores to determine if a students makes it in. Instead they can pay attention to the students gpa which measures the student’s long term commitment, hard work, and their school work.
  2. Since 2018, there has been 1,000 colleges that have made standardized test scores optional
Justify
. I. Students won’t have to stress about their act scores, instead they can focus on current school work during their most important years of highschool
II. schools won’t have to spend so much money on standardized testing anymore

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