Summary: The Benefits Of Standardized Testing

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”-Socrates.
This may be a good quote to follow in a personal life, but not for a country’s education. Are countries like Finland and South Korea pretending to be as smart as the standardized tests say they are? In the United States, every child is required by law to attend either public or private school and all are included in the standardized testing procedures. For Finland, all children receive some sort of education, required by law, but only students in non-vocational schools take the standardized tests that are used for global academic rankings. In South Korea, every child is required to attend school, but only those who qualify for upper secondary education take the standardized testing. For Finland and South Korea, this shows that the test results that are compared to the United States are skewed. Unlike …show more content…
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