Should Students Have to Take Standardized Tests?
“Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent students do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds,” Diane Ravitch once declared. Students should take less standardized tests. Testing takes up precious learning time, there are too many tests on the same subject, and students are always obsessing over tests.
To begin with, standardized tests take up too much valuable learning time. Did you know almost twenty to twenty-five hours are spent just on testing? When it comes to filling in ovals on a answer key, students start to stress. Almost 2.3 percent of class time is wasted because of students taking standardized tests. Teachers usually begin getting students prepared for testing two or three weeks before students take the tests. Those two or three weeks students could have learned at least two lessons. Other students may object that testing does not take up too much learning time, but in the past, students have taken the whole day to complete just one standardized test. …show more content…
Last year, students took five english language arts tests (6th grade.) Most likely all of those tests had the same questions on them, just worded differently. One of the main problems during testing is that there is an overlap. When there is an overlap in testing, students have to study more, then they stay up later than usually. Parents and students who disagree may confirm, students need more tests so the teachers can review what the students to to learn again. Although, having five tests on the same subject will not help the students, it will put way more stress on the
“Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent students do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds,” Diane Ravitch once declared. Students should take less standardized tests. Testing takes up precious learning time, there are too many tests on the same subject, and students are always obsessing over tests.
To begin with, standardized tests take up too much valuable learning time. Did you know almost twenty to twenty-five hours are spent just on testing? When it comes to filling in ovals on a answer key, students start to stress. Almost 2.3 percent of class time is wasted because of students taking standardized tests. Teachers usually begin getting students prepared for testing two or three weeks before students take the tests. Those two or three weeks students could have learned at least two lessons. Other students may object that testing does not take up too much learning time, but in the past, students have taken the whole day to complete just one standardized test. …show more content…
Last year, students took five english language arts tests (6th grade.) Most likely all of those tests had the same questions on them, just worded differently. One of the main problems during testing is that there is an overlap. When there is an overlap in testing, students have to study more, then they stay up later than usually. Parents and students who disagree may confirm, students need more tests so the teachers can review what the students to to learn again. Although, having five tests on the same subject will not help the students, it will put way more stress on the