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If your goal is to have standardized approaches to learning, where everybody learns the same thing at the same time in the same way, then learning by doing doesn't really fit that mold anymore.

Researchers in the Netherlands report that children who get more exercise, whether at school or on their own, 26 tend to have higher GPAs and better scores on standardized tests.

Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.

In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate — even if the roommate's test scores were low.

Students who scored low standardized tests

Black freshmen with high standardized test scores.

The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use standardized metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.

When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.

These activities are regulated by flexible rules adapted from standardized sport rules and are set up by the children or by an involved adult.

Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U.S. that tend to be "tightly scripted" and "highly standardized" ones that leave no room for "individual initiative or creativity".

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.