Standardized testing, the bane of school children all across America. Before just an assessment, a test to see how you were progressing in school. Now it plays an important role in deciding your future, and how much money the school you attend gets. The tests rear their ugly heads every few months, with SAT’s, ACT’s, MCA’s, MAP testing, and on top of that regular tests and final exams. People argue that these tests have nothing to show for. What do these test do for the child? How do schools use these tests? Do poverty rates affect how well a student performs on these tests?
Humans are amazing creatures, smart, agile, top predator, and learners. Children love to learn when it’s intriguing to them. Perhaps not all like to learn math or science, but prefer to learn music and art. Standardized testing is destroying the ability to be creative and learn. More and more lesson plans need to be modified to accommodate for standardized test materials. Classes have to be cut to allow for preparations in testing. Now even art, and Phy. Ed must take these tests! Students are taught to memorize as much as they can and deduct answers from a small pool of possible answers. This isn’t learning as much as it is massive memorization on certain materials. Aside from that, the tests stress out the children and make them feel pressured. A lot of …show more content…
hunger affects our ability to concentrate and makes test taking more difficult. Some people blame the teachers rather than the failing school system. Teachers are underpaid and often times use their own money to purchase supplies. “only 54 percent of low-income students passed the Common Core algebra exam in June 2014. But 64 percent of low-income students passed the old exam during the 2013-14 school year. By contrast, the same percentage of higher-income students – 83 percent” ("Common Core Tests Can Come at Cost for Underprivileged Students." N.p., n.d.
Humans are amazing creatures, smart, agile, top predator, and learners. Children love to learn when it’s intriguing to them. Perhaps not all like to learn math or science, but prefer to learn music and art. Standardized testing is destroying the ability to be creative and learn. More and more lesson plans need to be modified to accommodate for standardized test materials. Classes have to be cut to allow for preparations in testing. Now even art, and Phy. Ed must take these tests! Students are taught to memorize as much as they can and deduct answers from a small pool of possible answers. This isn’t learning as much as it is massive memorization on certain materials. Aside from that, the tests stress out the children and make them feel pressured. A lot of …show more content…
hunger affects our ability to concentrate and makes test taking more difficult. Some people blame the teachers rather than the failing school system. Teachers are underpaid and often times use their own money to purchase supplies. “only 54 percent of low-income students passed the Common Core algebra exam in June 2014. But 64 percent of low-income students passed the old exam during the 2013-14 school year. By contrast, the same percentage of higher-income students – 83 percent” ("Common Core Tests Can Come at Cost for Underprivileged Students." N.p., n.d.