I don’t think there should be such a big importance of passing a test to measure how students are doing. Some students as myself don’t like the pressure of standardized tests. My principal in high school was accused of telling teachers to change grades in order for her schools to look better. It is ironic because both my principal and Michelle Rhee were innocent, after the investigation was…
During an interview with Professor La Fleur, he mentioned that too much emphasis is put on standardized test and what teachers end up doing is training the student to take a particular test but that doesn't mean they fully understood the concept. Additionally, teachers need to give students an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter and have students engage in school activities. For instance, the movie Lean on Me, has major issues on the passing rate of standardized tests. Before Joe Clark became the new principal of East High, only 33% of the students passed a minimum basic skill test. The school was failing by the school board and Mr. Clark's incentive was to raise the test scores to avoid the state taking over as well as to improve the environment at school.…
The pressure that school, no matter the level, puts on students is unhealthy. Students are stressed to the max trying to achieve certain goals set by society. Every student strives for a 4.0 GPA and a high score on standardized test, even though they go through great amounts of stress to feel they have reached those goals. While if you don 't reach those certain goals you will feel like you have failed and not truly been prepared for your future. Evaluating students based on standardized testing is a very poor and inaccurate way to determine their intelligence.…
So far, teachers are deeply suspicious, and the state teachers’ unions are pouncing on any screw-ups. In addition, the error could fuel the opt-out movement’s argument that student test scores aren’t a fair measure for judging teachers or students.” Another instance as to why evaluating teachers solely on test scores. Let’s consider the film “Bad Teacher” as an example. In the film, Cameron Diaz plays as Elizabeth Halsey, an incompetent junior high school teacher, who never taught the class and in fact, she didn’t recognize her student's name.…
If the goal of school is truly education, standardized tests are not the correct tools to be using. If, instead, we want our children learning how to take tests, which is not a valuable skill outside of school, all states should require annual testing and exit…
For example, students who are either in the low income, minority, or disabilities bracket will tend to not pass and most likely not graduate. As for teachers, some will feel that they are teaching to the test not based on any literary depth and some schools offer teachers incentives to get the highest test scores. My sister who teaches in middle school has been told in recent years that her students are “just a number” and if she receives high enough scores, she could receive a raise. She believes that she is teaching solely strategies on how to take the test rather than actual literary content and that the test does not accurately measure her student’s skills. I truly believe we should do away with standardized testing in Texas.…
Within the education system, there are many reasons why standardized testing is flawed. While many government officials believe that standardized testing has more advantages than disadvantages, parents, teachers and students are facing oppressed teaching, a bleak education, narcissism, and a lack of respect for teaching. “We don’t need more data that continue to compare students to each other. We don’t need more standardized test data to keep telling the kids in the 95th percentile how superior they are and the kids who score below average that they still need improvement”(Nieto 58 “Still Teaching in Spite of It All”). Nieto tells about how not only students, but teachers and parents are affected by high-stakes standardized testing.…
Standardized testing should not be allowed because of the health consequences that tackles children. When some students glace at the test, anxiety overwhelms them. It could be the fact that all the standardized tests have such a big weight on the outcome, thus grades are being overlooked. In the educational system, years of hard work will still not compare to a standardized test. Some people believe that if a student does well in school and pays attention, they have nothing to worry about and they can get a splendid score on any standardized test.…
Students take a test, and get their score back, typically it is a passing score or a failing score. The growth of a student is not measured (Columbia University, “Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing”). We are punishing the teachers for their students failing a test, but what if that teacher took the student from the bottom of the scale to really close to passing. The teacher will not get rewarded for how much they have improved, but punished because they failed a test (Tim Walker, NEA Survey). We are not testing the knowledge of students in the correct…
How many of you didn't do well on that test we took today? I'm talking about below proficient, so less than an 80. I will be honest and say I scored less than an 80. I hate tests for many reasons, but the one you won't find on this post is if I do bad on them. Hating tests because of the fact you don't do well isn't a reason (or a very good one at that).…
In conclusion, schools should get rid of standardized testing. They are a large waste of time, they do not improve students’ education, and they discriminate between “winners” and “losers”. Originally, these tests were supposed to measure your intelligence and predict how well your capacity to learn is. But now, standardized tests are just big problems that don’t help teachers nor students.…
Proponents argue that standardized tests have been deteriorating education in America, but extensive longitudinal studies and national surveys over the past year says otherwise. Standardized testing has been around since 1905 starting with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. Fast forward fifteen years, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) was created. In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing new achievement tests designed to evaluate instructional methods and schools. Standardized testing ever since couple years of it’s introduction has stirred up controversy on the basis of racial bias, reliability, and discrimination.…
Some schools that use Standardized tests have been closed or fired their teachers. They are doing that because they are having either too many failing students or the teachers aren't teaching their students. Schools do not need to close down, but the teachers do need to get fired and replaced with a teacher that does their job. Low scores on the tests can also lead to a student not progressing to the next grade level if they fail. If the student fails, the teacher fails at her job.…
“Teachers should not be forced to spend the academic year preparing students to fill in bubbles on standardized tests.” (Barack Obama) The number of standardized tests has escalated in the last decade, which has caused the level of stress of students to rise quickly, standardized testing should not be required in public schools. Why have the number of tests escalated in the last ten years? David Whittemore says, “Each time a law is created regarding education, more tests are added to it.”…
The education system is different for every state, however each system has a guide line they must follow. Justin James in his essay, “Standardized Testing vs. Education” explains his view on standardized testing. James states, “Standardized tests teach students to practice and preform, but education is more about developing a sense…