Student Testing Research Paper

Since I was in school, regulations have changed tremendously. Today teachers are forced to test the students constantly to ensure that students, teachers, and schools are to par. Testing has become the norm in most schools. Between the schools self imposed testing ciriculum as well as that of the local and federal governmnets, a large percentage of a students schooling revolves around tests and final scores. The constant testing students must endure today is much too much.
Because the system has been changed to focus so much on testing and test results, teachers have learned to teach for the test. As opposed to teaching for the sake of knowledge, or teaching critical thinking teachers are doing what they can to speed through as much material as they can where the students will be able to pass the test. By teaching to the tests and not the classes needs many kids lose out. In each class students that are toward the bottom of the class that may have benefited from hands-on …show more content…
With constant testing, teachers are constantly being watched and tested as much as the students themselves. Today teachers must prove themselves through test scores. No more are the days where teachers could teach the students skills with which the students can themselves learn so much more than the teacher could have taught in the limited time a classroom provides. No more are the days when the teacher could focus on each student as in individual. Today the teacher must show impressive test scores to be validated.
The advocates will say that testing and the resulting pressure are the only way to bring about excellence; how else do we ensure that our children and students are learning as much as much as they can, and that our teachers are teaching as much as they can, they will argue. The truth is they have a valid point, but clearly testing is not the answer. Clearly constant testing only enhances the