To begin, standardized tests causes a lot of stress and anxiety …show more content…
Primarily, it’s only one day where they sit in a classroom for hours on end and stare at a screen. This doesn’t measure their knowledge to the full extent. Some of the most intelligent kids could have had a fight with their parents before they went to school which might have dropped their score and made them less focused. Secondly, you don’t actually get any information about what to work on, only how smart you are. Everyone guesses on at least a few questions, and if they guess correctly, they get a higher score than if someone guessed incorrectly. Consequently, the person who guessed more right but still knew as much as the person who guessed more wrong would get a higher score on the test even though both people knew just as much as the other. A study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and "caused by fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in learning..." This reveals that these tests don’t show their true knowledge and that a vast majority of them crammed in everything they needed to know shortly before the test, which doesn’t help them in any way.
Overall, standardized testing shouldn’t be required for students to take. Tests like these add unwanted stress to teens lives who already have enough or that as it is. Standardized test also don’t measure the important skills you actually need in the “real world”. They also aren’t reliable in terms of measuring how smart a student is. While some might say that these tests give a good look of where the school is at in relativity to the country, the score of the tests are most of the time not truly saying what the student