Against Standardized Testing

“Standardized testing causes severe stress in younger students.” So, why are we still taking them? Some people support standardized tests, and some people are against them. I believe standardized tests are not a useful way of determining knowledge of a student, because they don’t measure creativity, verbal skills, also they're wrong about a person's ability and only measure a small portion of what makes education meaningful. My first reason of why I am against standardized tests is because they don't measure creativity, verbal skills, etc. Standardized tests are sometimes wrong about a person's ability. “Not to express their understanding of the world. Or even form their own opinions about ideas they have to read,” states Don Batt. Standardized …show more content…
These standardized tests are don't measure the whole person's ability, only math and reading. Since standardized tests only test you in math and reading some students will score low. They will score low because if they are getting tested over something they aren't good at or can't show their creativity they struggle for not being tested over something other than math and reading. I believe that standardized tests don't know your abilities they only focus on what you know in math and reading, but some students may be better in science or social studies. Standardized tests don't test our abilities and they don't show a student's true knowledge. My last reason why I disagree with having standardized tests is because they measure only a small portion of what makes education meaningful. Standardized tests only provide skills in math and reading. I believe standardized tests only measure a small portion of meaningful information. Standardized tests provide a lot of useful time of useful information at low cost, and consume little class time. So, standardized tests don't provide skills that are needed other than math and