Standardized testing has changed the educational environment and the performance and attitude of students towards it. It has not only affected the way students run their lives both in and out of schools but also the way their parents or guardian must react to the educational needs of their children. Schools are not far from the curve and have had to adapt to all the different requirements and rules implemented by standardized test developers as well the state's requirements, as a direct result of the tests themselves.
Throughout the years, United States students have performed inadequatly when compared to other countries. Our once great educational results are now nothing but short of light. This has resulted in standardized tests as a way …show more content…
Although the scores have proven that the gap between social status has decreased, it lack to demonstrate once again the effect that it has on the children. According to the article What’s wrong standardized tests, the authors state, “NCLB also led to an explosion of other standardized exams, including “benchmark” tests often administered 3-10 times per year. U.S. students are now the most tested on Earth”(http://www.fairtest.org/whats-wrong-standardized-tests ). This means that between first to fifth grade students are taking 15-50 tests. Also a research show that “[a] typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade” (https://www.washingtonpost.com). As a consequence, schools have started teaching to the test rather than allow the students to learn. This means that their curriculum has been modified and narrowed to the subjects on the test and has eliminated special events like field trips and recess as well as other activities that might encourage the youth to maintain interest in learning as well as affect their social life( http://www.fairtest.org/whats-wrong-standardized-tests). Schools are graded on the student’s performance, which means that students are put into that much more stress to get the best scores possible even if it mean excessive homework and notes. This affects the way students socialize and interact with others because now they must be more focus on passing exams rather than their
Throughout the years, United States students have performed inadequatly when compared to other countries. Our once great educational results are now nothing but short of light. This has resulted in standardized tests as a way …show more content…
Although the scores have proven that the gap between social status has decreased, it lack to demonstrate once again the effect that it has on the children. According to the article What’s wrong standardized tests, the authors state, “NCLB also led to an explosion of other standardized exams, including “benchmark” tests often administered 3-10 times per year. U.S. students are now the most tested on Earth”(http://www.fairtest.org/whats-wrong-standardized-tests ). This means that between first to fifth grade students are taking 15-50 tests. Also a research show that “[a] typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade” (https://www.washingtonpost.com). As a consequence, schools have started teaching to the test rather than allow the students to learn. This means that their curriculum has been modified and narrowed to the subjects on the test and has eliminated special events like field trips and recess as well as other activities that might encourage the youth to maintain interest in learning as well as affect their social life( http://www.fairtest.org/whats-wrong-standardized-tests). Schools are graded on the student’s performance, which means that students are put into that much more stress to get the best scores possible even if it mean excessive homework and notes. This affects the way students socialize and interact with others because now they must be more focus on passing exams rather than their