TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Should We Get Rid of Standardized Testing?
What do standardized tests actually measure? And are they worthwhile? Arlo Kempf investigates.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Math Sample Standardized Test 1
Math Sample Standardized Test 1 assesses a variety of math concepts. Correct answers are confirmed. Incorrect answers trigger a text box with suggestions for getting the correct solution. As the items on the page are completed there is a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Math Sample Standardized Test 2
Math Sample Standardized Test 2 assesses a variety of math concepts. Correct answers are confirmed. Incorrect answers trigger a text box with suggestions for getting the correct solution. As the items on the page are completed there is a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Math Sample Standardized Test 3
Math Sample Standardized Test 3 assesses a variety of math concepts. Correct answers are confirmed. Incorrect answers trigger a text box with suggestions for getting the correct solution. As the items on the page are completed there is a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Math Sample Standardized Test 4
Math Sample Standardized Test 4 assesses a variety of math concepts. Correct answers are confirmed. Incorrect answers trigger a text box with suggestions for getting the correct solution. As the items on the page are completed there is a...
Other
California Department of Education: Cst Released Test Questions
The resource contains test questions from the California Standards Tests (CSTs). The questions are offered in PDF format for all subject areas.
Other
Graduate Educational Information Service: Test Prep Review
Contains great information to help students prepare for many national standardized tests, including the SAT, PSAT, ACT, GED, and many others. Along with tips and strategies, there are a number of free practice tests.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Family Matters: Standardized Tests
The expectations of standardized tests can often be confusing and intimidating. Information on these issues can be found in this article. A list of test taking tips from teachers is provided here as well.
Other
Arizona Academic Standards & Accountability
Standards and learning outcomes are given for all content areas at this resource. In addition, instructional guides, performance standards, results and sample AIMS (Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards) tests are included.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: How Can I Help My Child Do Well on Tests?
Standardized testing is one form of assessment used in schools. Find out about standardized tests, how and why schools use them, and how you can support your child.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Standardized Test Prep
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart demonstrates how the use of Activotes, in combination with ad hoc questions or pre-prepared questions entered into Activstudio's Question Master, can help teachers assess their students'...
Other
Student Team Literature: Standardized Reading Practice Test: A Wrinkle in Time
This resource provides excerpts from Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Students will practice standardized test-taking skills related to context clues, reading comprehension, and cause and effect.
Other
American Youth Policy Forum: Thinking About Tests and Testing [Pdf]
A comprehensive primer in assessment literacy that seeks to raise awareness of key aspects about tests and testing issues. Explains essential statistical terms associated with testing (mean, modes, medians, distribution, dispersion,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: To Read or Not to Read
This lesson focuses on the benefits of reading for pleasure including building experience, better standardized test scores, improved problem solving, provides pleasure, provides a language model, and develops thinking skills. It offers a...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Gre Test Prep
Features GRE test prep and GRE practice tests. Right now one of 12 separate lesson plans provide 12 ACT words (goal is 144 words) in a lesson plan of 12 words each. Latin and Greek roots facilitate mastery of unfamiliar words. The GRE...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Act Test Prep
Five separate lesson plans provide 60 ACT words. Latin and Greek roots facilitate mastery of unfamiliar words. The ACT and other standardized tests for college entrance use similar words in ACT test prep exams. The word puzzles are...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Standard Punctuation Power Point
Learn about using end marks, commas, semicolons, and apostrophes correctly. Practice identifying correct usage in questions that could be found on standardized tests.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mcas 5th Grade Science Test Prep
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart offers test preparation for the standardized test given in 5th grade in Massachusetts. Correct answers are logged and referenced to state standards to help teachers review and focus on...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]
Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Preparing Yourself for Success on the Tests
This article gives tips to maximize your score on the SAT or ACT tests.
Other
Parent's Guide to No Child Left Behind [Pdf]
This five page documents outlines the mandates of NCLB and how this impacts students. This pdf is directed towards parents who would like to learn more about NCLB and standardized testing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Standard English Conventions
On the SAT Writing & Language Test, you will encounter questions that will ask you to interact with and revise passages in different ways. Standard English Conventions questions ask you to make sentences consistent with standard...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Writing and Language Test: Overview
An overview of the SAT Writing and Language Test. Each Writing and Language Test consists of four passages with 11 questions each. You will have 35 minutes to complete the Writing and Language Test.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Classification of Matter Quiz
While this 10-question multiple choice quiz is published to accompany Glencoe's Physical Science textbook, it covers the basics of matter classification taught in any course. Written in standardized test style, learners can take the...