Beads of sweat gather on nervous foreheads of young students. Their hands shake, lips tremble. Able to burst into tears in a matter of seconds. All over the world children of all ages are being forced to take complicated standardized tests. These tests cause extremely high levels of stress, they are unfair, and they waste large amounts of valuable class time
Children who should be running outside in the sun, feeling the sun or cool rain on their face, are inside worrying about the test tomorrow. Many kids who are opposed to take the standardized test cannot even spell standardized. One article says that “...the tests are being pushed on students when they are not developmentally ready for them. As a recent report in Slate finds, many states …show more content…
It is also the content on the page. After taking the test one student said “‘ You’re supposed to pick one right answer… There’s never going to be one right way to solve a problem, so why should there be one right answer?’” (Bryant, 1). This statement is completely true, there are many right ways to a problem, and standardized test only account for one of them. “The multiple choice format used on standardized test is an inadequate assessment tool. In encourages a simplistic way of thinking in which there are only right and wrong answers, which doesn’t apply in real-world situations” (Sacks, 1). The children need to be pushed to problem solving, such as they would use in real life. Not right or wrong answers. One could easily guess the answer to a question and get it right, but that most definitely does not mean the child understands the content. Standardized “... tests have tended to lean heavily on easily scorable multiple-choice questions that stress memory rather than understanding” (Jehlen, 1). So, when a child or teen takes these tests it does not matter if they understand what they’re doing, just as long as they got the right answer. This is completely unacceptable, they need to be tested over their understanding of a
Children who should be running outside in the sun, feeling the sun or cool rain on their face, are inside worrying about the test tomorrow. Many kids who are opposed to take the standardized test cannot even spell standardized. One article says that “...the tests are being pushed on students when they are not developmentally ready for them. As a recent report in Slate finds, many states …show more content…
It is also the content on the page. After taking the test one student said “‘ You’re supposed to pick one right answer… There’s never going to be one right way to solve a problem, so why should there be one right answer?’” (Bryant, 1). This statement is completely true, there are many right ways to a problem, and standardized test only account for one of them. “The multiple choice format used on standardized test is an inadequate assessment tool. In encourages a simplistic way of thinking in which there are only right and wrong answers, which doesn’t apply in real-world situations” (Sacks, 1). The children need to be pushed to problem solving, such as they would use in real life. Not right or wrong answers. One could easily guess the answer to a question and get it right, but that most definitely does not mean the child understands the content. Standardized “... tests have tended to lean heavily on easily scorable multiple-choice questions that stress memory rather than understanding” (Jehlen, 1). So, when a child or teen takes these tests it does not matter if they understand what they’re doing, just as long as they got the right answer. This is completely unacceptable, they need to be tested over their understanding of a