Most students, if not all, notably dislike the need for standardized testing in school, and it's a perfectly reasonable opinion. Many researchers and experts say that standardized tests are a massive waste of time and effort, and they do not help students’ education at all. Both teachers and students agree that it is stressful and unnecessary. Some schools spend days, if not weeks, to test when they could be using the time to teach. Standardized tests also create unfair judgments to students and have their future based on a number. This shows why schools should get rid of standardized tests for the benefit of students and teachers.
One of the reasons why standardized testing should be removed from schools is because they do not improve student …show more content…
For instance, a student is portrayed as “smart” and are assumed to know the information if they pass a standardized test with a high score. A student is labeled “dumb” or low-achieving if they fail the test. This point can be proven by Thomas Armstrong on Ascd Edge, “Standardized tests provide parents and teachers with a false sense of security. If a student scores well on a test, then it is assumed that they know the material. However, this may not be true at all. The student may have simply memorized the fact or formula or trick necessary to do well on the test.” This is a huge issue nowadays because it doesn’t show the abilities and uniqueness of how each student could perform. Standardized tests create systems that compare students with one another by mere numbers and scores on a …show more content…
Lelac Almagor, author of “The Good in Standardized Testing” says, “Without standardized testing—and lacking any other basis for comparison in their own educational experience—the students’ families had no way of knowing what [Almagor] had assumed was obvious: that eighth graders... on the other side of town were well past working on multisyllabic words or improper fractions. They had no way of knowing that their hard-working, solid-GPA kids were already far behind.” Almagor’s writing shows how standardized testing can actually be helpful to several families to show them how their child is doing in school. While this may be the case, standardized testing still creates more inconveniences for students, teachers, and parents. If the tests take up too much time, create “winners” and “losers”, but don’t support the student’s education, are standardized tests even worth their trouble?
In conclusion, schools should get rid of standardized testing. They are a large waste of time, they do not improve students’ education, and they discriminate between “winners” and “losers”. Originally, these tests were supposed to measure your intelligence and predict how well your capacity to learn is. But now, standardized tests are just big problems that don’t help teachers nor students. Should a child’s future really be dependent on a test
One of the reasons why standardized testing should be removed from schools is because they do not improve student …show more content…
For instance, a student is portrayed as “smart” and are assumed to know the information if they pass a standardized test with a high score. A student is labeled “dumb” or low-achieving if they fail the test. This point can be proven by Thomas Armstrong on Ascd Edge, “Standardized tests provide parents and teachers with a false sense of security. If a student scores well on a test, then it is assumed that they know the material. However, this may not be true at all. The student may have simply memorized the fact or formula or trick necessary to do well on the test.” This is a huge issue nowadays because it doesn’t show the abilities and uniqueness of how each student could perform. Standardized tests create systems that compare students with one another by mere numbers and scores on a …show more content…
Lelac Almagor, author of “The Good in Standardized Testing” says, “Without standardized testing—and lacking any other basis for comparison in their own educational experience—the students’ families had no way of knowing what [Almagor] had assumed was obvious: that eighth graders... on the other side of town were well past working on multisyllabic words or improper fractions. They had no way of knowing that their hard-working, solid-GPA kids were already far behind.” Almagor’s writing shows how standardized testing can actually be helpful to several families to show them how their child is doing in school. While this may be the case, standardized testing still creates more inconveniences for students, teachers, and parents. If the tests take up too much time, create “winners” and “losers”, but don’t support the student’s education, are standardized tests even worth their trouble?
In conclusion, schools should get rid of standardized testing. They are a large waste of time, they do not improve students’ education, and they discriminate between “winners” and “losers”. Originally, these tests were supposed to measure your intelligence and predict how well your capacity to learn is. But now, standardized tests are just big problems that don’t help teachers nor students. Should a child’s future really be dependent on a test