The idea of school is to go and get an education. Millions of students in the United States do exactly that every day. The curriculum consists of language arts, math, and science along with, two electives. During grade school students are preparing for college and career readiness. To help measure the performance of every children the state gives out a standardized test. However, in recent years testing has become a problem for the students, teachers, and the overall school environment.
Testing in a nutshell is a way to measure the knowledge that a student have in a specific area. “Standardized tests provide a lot of useful information at low cost” (ProCon.org). Standardized testing includes reading, math, science and other subjects throughout …show more content…
Though with English you have critical thinking questions that need someone to review the responds. Without that person the results are flawed because a computer can only do so much. These can have a negative effect on the student scores. Resulting to not being able to graduation or just be promoted to the next grade. The thought that you went to school for 13 years to not being able to leave with your diploma but with a certificate of completion because of a test is a horrible feeling. Many of students every year go through exactly …show more content…
A teacher go through evaluations based on how effective they are teaching the material to their students. The thing that are reviewed to determine that is test scores. This is linked to the way they are getting pay. Teachers are paid on merits meaning that they are paid off of the student performance. Merit pay is barely used anywhere in the workforce. Those teachers that don’t get the score are said to be underperformed and more likely to be fired. The reason why these is that way to motivate the teachers to perform well. Those teachers who are doing really well are more likely to receive a bonuses. So no grade no pay. The assumption that teachers have to constantly prove themselves that they can do their job
Testing in a nutshell is a way to measure the knowledge that a student have in a specific area. “Standardized tests provide a lot of useful information at low cost” (ProCon.org). Standardized testing includes reading, math, science and other subjects throughout …show more content…
Though with English you have critical thinking questions that need someone to review the responds. Without that person the results are flawed because a computer can only do so much. These can have a negative effect on the student scores. Resulting to not being able to graduation or just be promoted to the next grade. The thought that you went to school for 13 years to not being able to leave with your diploma but with a certificate of completion because of a test is a horrible feeling. Many of students every year go through exactly …show more content…
A teacher go through evaluations based on how effective they are teaching the material to their students. The thing that are reviewed to determine that is test scores. This is linked to the way they are getting pay. Teachers are paid on merits meaning that they are paid off of the student performance. Merit pay is barely used anywhere in the workforce. Those teachers that don’t get the score are said to be underperformed and more likely to be fired. The reason why these is that way to motivate the teachers to perform well. Those teachers who are doing really well are more likely to receive a bonuses. So no grade no pay. The assumption that teachers have to constantly prove themselves that they can do their job