Schools need to have less standardized testing, because it puts more stress on the students, it overwhelms them, and teachers can’t teach what they want because, they have to prepare their students for the corporate issued tests. School corporations aren’t using standardized testing correctly. Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how students compare with each other or how much of a particular curriculum they have learned. Increasingly, standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students, such as grade promotion or high school graduation. Under a new federal law, state assessments of reading and math must be administered for accountability annually in grades three through eight and in high schools.
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This not only puts even more stress on the students, but it also takes away time for the students to learn their next chapter. Teachers have to teach at least one or two chapters or lessons each day. If a student misses and has to make up a test, how are they supposed to learn all the material that everyone else has already learned without cramming to study or having to teach the whole lesson to themselves?
Attaching high stakes to tests results increases cheating and other efforts to boost scores without improving educational quality (Fair). The results of cheating can be suspension, expulsion, and failing the course. Also, adding high stakes to testing results in teachers focusing only on the material assessed.
Opponents of testing complain that it has created two problems in US education: the first is the fact that some students are only willing to put effort into what is tested, so narrowing their own learning, and are happy just to pass the test, rather than trying to excel; the second is the curriculum's concentration on what can be tested – mainly factual knowledge that fits the multiple-choice formula
This not only puts even more stress on the students, but it also takes away time for the students to learn their next chapter. Teachers have to teach at least one or two chapters or lessons each day. If a student misses and has to make up a test, how are they supposed to learn all the material that everyone else has already learned without cramming to study or having to teach the whole lesson to themselves?
Attaching high stakes to tests results increases cheating and other efforts to boost scores without improving educational quality (Fair). The results of cheating can be suspension, expulsion, and failing the course. Also, adding high stakes to testing results in teachers focusing only on the material assessed.
Opponents of testing complain that it has created two problems in US education: the first is the fact that some students are only willing to put effort into what is tested, so narrowing their own learning, and are happy just to pass the test, rather than trying to excel; the second is the curriculum's concentration on what can be tested – mainly factual knowledge that fits the multiple-choice formula