Are Standardized Test Beneficial To Anyone?
Are students failing the test, or are the tests failing the students? In the year 1991 an average high school student took an averaged of anywhere from eighteen to twenty-one standardized test throughout the course of their academic career. I can only imagine that those numbers and the stakes associated with the test have increased since then. We rely on test to tell us so much information, but is that test doing students any good? Personally I don’t think they are benefiting anyone; however they are a good tool to determine how much information a student is retaining.
Before I dive into the argument of standardized test, here is a little history of how the test came about. Standardized tests have …show more content…
The pros on their list consist of holding teachers and schools accountable, it gives teachers a guideline of what and when to teach students, gives parents an idea of how their child is doing, and it allows students to be compared with students in other schools. They list a few other things, but they seem to repeat the pros previously mentioned. The con list consists of things like the fact that it only evaluates a student’s performance on the day of the test and doesn’t take into account factors that may cause the student to perform poorly, causing teachers to teach for the test, only evaluates the students performance up to that point in time instead of the growth of the student over the course of the year, creates enormous amounts of stress for both the teacher and students, many don’t like the fact that the school relies on solely the performance for things like federal funds, schools that aren’t meeting performance standards are taking away students recess to give them more class time. Just reading this pros and cons list alone makes me wonder how people can think that giving student’s standardized test is
Are students failing the test, or are the tests failing the students? In the year 1991 an average high school student took an averaged of anywhere from eighteen to twenty-one standardized test throughout the course of their academic career. I can only imagine that those numbers and the stakes associated with the test have increased since then. We rely on test to tell us so much information, but is that test doing students any good? Personally I don’t think they are benefiting anyone; however they are a good tool to determine how much information a student is retaining.
Before I dive into the argument of standardized test, here is a little history of how the test came about. Standardized tests have …show more content…
The pros on their list consist of holding teachers and schools accountable, it gives teachers a guideline of what and when to teach students, gives parents an idea of how their child is doing, and it allows students to be compared with students in other schools. They list a few other things, but they seem to repeat the pros previously mentioned. The con list consists of things like the fact that it only evaluates a student’s performance on the day of the test and doesn’t take into account factors that may cause the student to perform poorly, causing teachers to teach for the test, only evaluates the students performance up to that point in time instead of the growth of the student over the course of the year, creates enormous amounts of stress for both the teacher and students, many don’t like the fact that the school relies on solely the performance for things like federal funds, schools that aren’t meeting performance standards are taking away students recess to give them more class time. Just reading this pros and cons list alone makes me wonder how people can think that giving student’s standardized test is