Many people have different thoughts, feelings, and concerns about whether to opt out of state standardized testing or to opt in. In this research paper we will be exploring the different thoughts/ opinions and also concerns that people have. Many people feel as though that our teachers today are only teaching what needs to be known for the state standardized test, but is that really true? Personally I don’t feel like that’s true at all, I feel as though teachers are teaching what needs to be taught and that all students should have to take the state tests.
For those of you who don’t know, standardized tests is any form of test that, requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions. Scored in a “standard” or “consistent” manner, making it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students. While different types of tests and assessments may be “standardized,” the term is associated with large-scale tests administered to large populations of students, for example, a multiple-choice test given to all the eighth-grade public-school students in a specific state. …show more content…
Fordham Institute, there are three reasons standardized testing should stay. The key reasons, as I see them, are objectivity, comparability, and accountability” (Churchill, 2015). Standardized test are designed to have objective measures by assessing students based on a similar set of questions, given under the same or almost the same testing conditions, and are graded by a machine. They are intended to provide an accurate, unfiltered measure of what a student knows and what they have learned in the past year. When students take standardized tests, a much clearer view of academic success can be seen. So while standardized tests are not intended to and should not replace the grades teachers give them in the
For those of you who don’t know, standardized tests is any form of test that, requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions. Scored in a “standard” or “consistent” manner, making it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students. While different types of tests and assessments may be “standardized,” the term is associated with large-scale tests administered to large populations of students, for example, a multiple-choice test given to all the eighth-grade public-school students in a specific state. …show more content…
Fordham Institute, there are three reasons standardized testing should stay. The key reasons, as I see them, are objectivity, comparability, and accountability” (Churchill, 2015). Standardized test are designed to have objective measures by assessing students based on a similar set of questions, given under the same or almost the same testing conditions, and are graded by a machine. They are intended to provide an accurate, unfiltered measure of what a student knows and what they have learned in the past year. When students take standardized tests, a much clearer view of academic success can be seen. So while standardized tests are not intended to and should not replace the grades teachers give them in the