This house believes that high stakes testing in English schools is detrimental to students, teachers and schools and does not help develop truly educated people. High stake testing is tests which establish and/or identify a student’s future education, additionally presenting consequences if a ‘good’ grade is or is not achieved. Therefore by the use of high stake testing students are being sent the message that tests are more important, than actual learning and that if something is not on a test, it is not worth learning. What are educators putting across to children that other subjects are somewhat less important, because they don’t have to study for hours for other subjects they aren’t being tested on? (West, 2010).
Overemphasising on testing
Overemphasising on testing