The Positive And Negative Effects Of Standardized Testing In Schools

It’s the first day of school, the students get to their first period class and the first thing they get is a class syllabus. The teacher goes over the usual stuff; who they are, what they’re going to teach, what they expect from their students, and then the grading outline; homework’s worth 10%, classwork’s worth 30%, and the tests? The tests are worth 60%, more than half of the overall grade. It isn’t going to matter if someone gets 100% on the homework’s and finishes all of the classwork, if they fail the tests, or just don’t do well on them, their grade is going to be greatly affected. The school districts want to know what students are being taught, if they’re being taught well enough, and how much they’re learning. They expect to get all that from the standardized test, and it’s not just one or two tests,it’s many, throughout the entire school year, one …show more content…
There are students who just can’t get a good grade a test no matter how much they know or how much of the criteria they understand. There’s a various amount of reasons students aren’t good at testing, the list could go on and on, but the important thing is that a standardized test couldn’t possibly show what a student knows. They could also say teachers can be evaluated by those tests because if they’re teaching the students correctly they will know the answers on the test, but a teacher cannot control whether a student is actually paying attention or not, and when they have to hurry through the lessons, they’re not going to have time to go to each and every student to ask them if they understand what’s being taught. School districts need to stop using standardized tests as a way to check on a student’s achievement and evaluate a teacher’s ability to