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Einstein once said “ everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it’ll spend it’s whole life believing it’s stupid.” This is exactly what we’re doing to our students with the use of standardized testing. Standardized testing is “any form of test that (1) requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from a common bank of questions, in the same way, and that (2) is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students.” Examples of standardized testing include AIMs, Az Merit, SAT, ACT, and many more. Standardized Testing is a multi-billion dollar industry that is doing nothing for America and it’s students, but raising mental health issues and wasting money on unesscesary labor to grade these useless tests.

Standardized testing has been used since the 1800s, however we haven’t seen any real improvement in the intelligence of our students. After the No Child Left Behind Act was put into place in 2002 America’s math placement dropped significantly along with our science placement. Standardized testing has been proven an unreliable measure of student performance. Most students just guess on the questions and show no real signs of intellectual development, not to mention the percent of students forced to take the tests when they have special needs or do not fully speak and comprehend the english language. These students are forced to test without their usual accommodations and are graded and compared to regular students. Think of it this way… Standardized tests are like pencil sharpeners. Then you have the students. Ones a pencil, another a pen, a crayon, a paintbrush, a marker, and so on. While each of these utensils is essential to making a beautiful drawing, if we only judge them on how well they sharpen, we'd see everything but the pencil as worthless, when in reality that's not the truth. Teachers are now teaching to the test instead of teaching to learn. They spend precious time they could be using to expand our knowledge preparing us for a judgemental piece of paper that in reality does nothing to prove our intelligence. Here's another example.. You need a doctor to perform a heart transplant on you.. Would you rather a doctor who circled in some bubbles on a piece of paper and guessed on half his answers or a doctor who had performed the surgery with his own hands before and had been taught in many different ways to understand all situations… I'd have to say most of us could agree on the later.

The opposing view might say that “Standardized tests are reliable and objective measures of student achievement. Without them, policy makers would have to rely on tests scored by individual schools and teachers who have a vested interest in producing favorable results. Multiple-choice tests, in particular, are graded by machine and therefore are not subject to human subjectivity or bias.” however this is disproved when we read that “Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance. A 2001 study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and "caused by fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in learning..."

So to say that everyone must conform to a certain way of learning is to say that there is only one form of genius and to say that those who cannot conform aren't smart enough,