Is standardized testing really improving education?
Everyone hates testing so why not put an end to it? There’s a 70% of teachers agree that their state assessments are not developmentally appropriate for their students. Only 13% agreed that the test, their students took met the standard they were looking for.
Standardized testing is not improving education in America. Teachers learn during their training and through experience that each child’s readiness to learn new skills and concepts varies by many factors in addition to age. Students should not be tested to prove how smart they are.
As I stated, standardized testing should not be allowed because it does not prove a student’s knowledge. The article Education: Meeting America's Needs? Says …show more content…
Which is why they feel the need to change it up. The opposing side might say that by adding different kinds of questions on the test will make the test more fair. College Admissions starts off an article by explaining why colleges began to use standardized testing. Standardized testing for colleges began in 1900 with the formation of the College Entrance Examination Board by twelve prestigious universities who were concerned with the lack of a standard curriculum among New England boarding schools. Followed by that, they explain what Binet and Brigham thought about standardized testing. They assumed that intelligence was a unitary, inherited attribute, and that it was not subject to change over a lifetime and could be measured in a single number. Unlike the curriculum based College Boards, the Scholastic Aptitude Test measured aptitude, not subject mastery. The Scholastic Aptitude Test and was given to more than eight thousand students on June 23, 1926. Lastly they say that over the years, the Scholastic Aptitude Test has been modified to reflect changes in educational philosophy. In 1930, the test was split into two parts, a verbal aptitude and a …show more content…
We are becoming unfocused of actually retaining new information and being testing 2 days later of learning something new. The article Issues in Science and Technology discusses the hazards of high-stakes testing: hyped by many as the key to improving the quality of education, testing can do more harm than good if the limitations of tests are not understood. The article argues how testing provides an inaccurate measure of student’s knowledge. They say that instead of learning the curriculum they're preparing for the what is on the test. Test items must cover a wide array of standards throughout the curriculum. Many teachers will teach to the test. When students were evaluated only on simple skills, teachers did not devote time to helping them develop a broader variety of thinking skills. The opposing side will say that tests help teachers find out if the students are learning. How is that so if we move on from one topic to another in so little time. The article Education Next states that over the past few years, students by the thousands have refused to take their state's standardized tests. They follow up by saying that viewing universal standardized testing is an important source of information for educators, students, and parents and a necessary tool for ensuring equity in public education. They end the article by saying conversationally, a
Everyone hates testing so why not put an end to it? There’s a 70% of teachers agree that their state assessments are not developmentally appropriate for their students. Only 13% agreed that the test, their students took met the standard they were looking for.
Standardized testing is not improving education in America. Teachers learn during their training and through experience that each child’s readiness to learn new skills and concepts varies by many factors in addition to age. Students should not be tested to prove how smart they are.
As I stated, standardized testing should not be allowed because it does not prove a student’s knowledge. The article Education: Meeting America's Needs? Says …show more content…
Which is why they feel the need to change it up. The opposing side might say that by adding different kinds of questions on the test will make the test more fair. College Admissions starts off an article by explaining why colleges began to use standardized testing. Standardized testing for colleges began in 1900 with the formation of the College Entrance Examination Board by twelve prestigious universities who were concerned with the lack of a standard curriculum among New England boarding schools. Followed by that, they explain what Binet and Brigham thought about standardized testing. They assumed that intelligence was a unitary, inherited attribute, and that it was not subject to change over a lifetime and could be measured in a single number. Unlike the curriculum based College Boards, the Scholastic Aptitude Test measured aptitude, not subject mastery. The Scholastic Aptitude Test and was given to more than eight thousand students on June 23, 1926. Lastly they say that over the years, the Scholastic Aptitude Test has been modified to reflect changes in educational philosophy. In 1930, the test was split into two parts, a verbal aptitude and a …show more content…
We are becoming unfocused of actually retaining new information and being testing 2 days later of learning something new. The article Issues in Science and Technology discusses the hazards of high-stakes testing: hyped by many as the key to improving the quality of education, testing can do more harm than good if the limitations of tests are not understood. The article argues how testing provides an inaccurate measure of student’s knowledge. They say that instead of learning the curriculum they're preparing for the what is on the test. Test items must cover a wide array of standards throughout the curriculum. Many teachers will teach to the test. When students were evaluated only on simple skills, teachers did not devote time to helping them develop a broader variety of thinking skills. The opposing side will say that tests help teachers find out if the students are learning. How is that so if we move on from one topic to another in so little time. The article Education Next states that over the past few years, students by the thousands have refused to take their state's standardized tests. They follow up by saying that viewing universal standardized testing is an important source of information for educators, students, and parents and a necessary tool for ensuring equity in public education. They end the article by saying conversationally, a