How to Use standardized in a Sentence

standardized

adjective
  • Chief among those tensions, in the past few years, has been the question of whether standardized tests should be central to the process.
    Neil Lewis Jr., The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The sleepless nights ahead, the tantrums and book reports and standardized tests and the million ways that kids in middle school are mean.
    Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The lack of a standardized threshold speaks to the general paucity of knowledge about smoke taint.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The state grades students on standardized tests between Levels 1 and 5, with 5 being the best score.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The stages of lung cancer are used to describe the severity and progression of the disease in a standardized way.
    Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Google Maps The incident happened last week as the boy’s class was preparing to take a standardized test.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Some people are great at test-taking, and others (like me and my two brothers) are bad at standardized tests of any kind.
    Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Police at the time had not yet started saving standardized rape kits.
    Catherine Rentz, ProPublica, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But a standardized process for reporting could help to change the impression that whistleblowing is a form of biting the hand that feeds.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In Lab testing, the tool dried standardized human hair samples fastest of all the travel hairdryers, in 60 seconds.
    Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Mundo said each school is going to be different in their training and there is no standardized process.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2023
  • Beresford led one of the state’s top-performing districts in terms of standardized testing.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2024
  • Her standardized testing score improved from the fall to the spring, but only by four points, leaving her 28 points below the average score.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2022
  • For decades, New York required high schoolers to pass a standardized test known as the Regents exam to graduate.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • In fact, standardized testing should be mandatory — and free — for all high school students.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Mar. 2023
  • O’Brien had been trying to create standardized sizing for women’s ready-to-wear clothes.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 19 July 2023
  • In the news release, Yale said a student’s scores on standardized tests were the single greatest predictor of the student’s future grades.
    Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The school’s acceptance rate is about 68% and students go through a series of interviews in lieu of a standardized test as an entrance exam.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
  • But given the chance to offer some hint of emotion, DeSantis proceeds to answer the question like a standardized test.
    Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Schools closed last spring before students could take their final standardized tests.
    Della Hasselle | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The idea is to create standardized work processes that keep getting better.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Some think that the practice of philosophical counselling should be more standardized.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The Arizona Department of Education has released the results of the state's standardized tests that students took in spring 2024.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Simmons agreed to take a standardized field sobriety test but struggled and was unable to recite the alphabet, the report said.
    Peter Rasmussen, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Alaska students have regularly scored in the bottom of the nation in standardized tests.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • The bill would require students using scholarships to take the state’s annual standardized test in math and reading.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
  • The questions were based on a standardized framework social scientists use to assess people’s judgments of right and wrong.
    Anvita Patwardhan, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There is no standardized regulation as to what dimensions an Olympic pool should have.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The state’s school accountability system, in use since 2009, mostly uses standardized test scores to rate schools and districts.
    Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The study, conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, identified nearly 500 schools across the country that were both under enrolled and chronically low-achieving, based on each state's standardized test scores.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Nov. 2024

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