Arguments Against Standardized Testing

Standardized testing is very significant in our day and age. To get into a good university they at least want you to have a twenty four, and just for having a twenty four you might have to take extra courses just because it still was not high enough. Why do colleges want scores so high? Why can't a student be based on the grades they have made in high school and not just on a single test? What is even the purpose for the ACT and SAT, students stress over these tests knowing that they have to get a certain score. What about people who are bad test takers or they are dyslexic? I think standardized testing is unfair, and not reliable. In addition to that, what is the purpose of a standardized test? "Research and experience show that standardized …show more content…
Well we know one is to see the knowledge of a student but is that it? "Standardized exam data remain the best way to hold schools accountable for their academic performance." The only reason I would be for standardized testing is for this, schools defiantly need test kids to see what they need to help in or what they could do better at if a majority of a group of student's scores were low in a certain subject. I do not agree with having a certain score on such a test like the FCAT, to pass the grade you are in. Elementary students dealing with standardized testing, being retained in the grade or summer school all because of a single test. Does not matter how you did that whole year in school or anything, just that test that took you all week to take determines if you go to the next grade. That just seems like a tremendous amount expectations for a young …show more content…
Taking any standardized score is going to show that the people who do that are not going to well and how they expected to do well in college if they do not know how to even study for a test not everyone cheats their way through high school. I see why it is a good reason to have standardized testing but I feel has there are more cons then there are pros of it. "Standardized testing can be wrongfully used as fuel for those with political agendas. This is a sad reality far too often across all levels of the political realm." It is sad how true this is, politics are all about making a difference in education, and how they truly care about it. If they really did care about the education they would do something about other than just using that to get people. Education is very important and standardized testing sometimes keeps kids from going to college and furthering their educations. The ACT/SAT are not free, some people do not have the money, or the right devices like a calculator. "Some school systems are under great pressure to raise their scores so they have resorted to decreasing (and sometimes doing away with) time spent in recess. This can have negative impact on children’s social, emotional, and academic well-being." It is not right how much pressure kids are under from standardized