American students around the country will at the third grade begin taking the standardized tests. From there, the tests get more complex and add more fields. As students, we are being forced to be in common core classes that supposedly help with these exams. However, they seem to be a waste of our time and the time of our teachers as test scores begin to decrease year after year. Although they claim that standardized testing is helping students, they in end waste time, cause stress and are useless to many potential jobs.
Standardized tests have been in function in America for more than 50 years; now they are more pressure-packed and increasing in frequency than seen in the history of the test. The SAT was introduced in 1926 as the Scholastic …show more content…
The National Research Council reports have found no evidence of standardized testing or common core improving test scores. “Despite using them for several decades, policymakers and educators do not yet know how to use test-based incentives to consistently generate positive effects on achievement and to improve education.” Standardized test are made in one particular mold. They don’t allow people to be themselves and expand in what they do best or need for their future. Instead, it's forcing us to all be smashed in the same cookie cutter of learning. People can be compared to writing tools. Some of us are pens, paintbrushes, others a crayon, a marker, and some an ordinary pencil. While they are all writing instruments and used for potentially the same purpose of marking paper, they are not entirely the same. They have different shapes, sizes, thickness, and color. These writing tools represent people and how we are all different and are good at certain things. You wouldn’t use a paintbrush to write out an entire essay like you would a pencil. We could represent Standardized testing with a pencil sharpener, all the same size, width, and structure. Standardized testing is basically forcing the markers, paintbrushes, and crayons to be sharpened by the same pencil sharpener which doesn’t work for distinctly …show more content…
The US Department of Education states that “If teachers cover subject matter required by the standards and teach it well, then students will master the material on which they will be tested-- and probably much more.” However teachers are now spending less time on other subjects that are just as important, and skipping important US history. The test scores are showing that teachers are not able to teach the required material in time we have to pass. They have been consistently dropping over the years. During the school year when the students have completed their testing, the last few weeks of school are often hours of wasted time. Nothing is being taught the last few weeks of school because the goal was to prepare for the tests. The law requires a certain number of hours be in the academic year. However, those hours are not utilized. In spite of the increased preparation and testing, Test scores have failed to show any increase in knowledge by the students. New York Times reported, “On the reading test, which is scored from zero to 500, the average score in 12th grade in 2015 was 287, down from 292 in 1992, the first year of a comparable test in that
Standardized tests have been in function in America for more than 50 years; now they are more pressure-packed and increasing in frequency than seen in the history of the test. The SAT was introduced in 1926 as the Scholastic …show more content…
The National Research Council reports have found no evidence of standardized testing or common core improving test scores. “Despite using them for several decades, policymakers and educators do not yet know how to use test-based incentives to consistently generate positive effects on achievement and to improve education.” Standardized test are made in one particular mold. They don’t allow people to be themselves and expand in what they do best or need for their future. Instead, it's forcing us to all be smashed in the same cookie cutter of learning. People can be compared to writing tools. Some of us are pens, paintbrushes, others a crayon, a marker, and some an ordinary pencil. While they are all writing instruments and used for potentially the same purpose of marking paper, they are not entirely the same. They have different shapes, sizes, thickness, and color. These writing tools represent people and how we are all different and are good at certain things. You wouldn’t use a paintbrush to write out an entire essay like you would a pencil. We could represent Standardized testing with a pencil sharpener, all the same size, width, and structure. Standardized testing is basically forcing the markers, paintbrushes, and crayons to be sharpened by the same pencil sharpener which doesn’t work for distinctly …show more content…
The US Department of Education states that “If teachers cover subject matter required by the standards and teach it well, then students will master the material on which they will be tested-- and probably much more.” However teachers are now spending less time on other subjects that are just as important, and skipping important US history. The test scores are showing that teachers are not able to teach the required material in time we have to pass. They have been consistently dropping over the years. During the school year when the students have completed their testing, the last few weeks of school are often hours of wasted time. Nothing is being taught the last few weeks of school because the goal was to prepare for the tests. The law requires a certain number of hours be in the academic year. However, those hours are not utilized. In spite of the increased preparation and testing, Test scores have failed to show any increase in knowledge by the students. New York Times reported, “On the reading test, which is scored from zero to 500, the average score in 12th grade in 2015 was 287, down from 292 in 1992, the first year of a comparable test in that