High stakes testing. We all read about standardized tests in the newspapers, watch reporters talk about it on the evening news, and read statistics about them online.
When No Child Left Behind’s law was enacted in 2001, little did teachers know what was set ahead for both them and their students in the classroom. Those who supported the bill believed that it would hold schools accountable their students’ success. Teachers were not prepared for what was to come, needing to set aside daily student work for more time to teach students how to take the test. So how did testing become such a glitch in the education system in the first place?This paper will argue that there are flaws in today’s standardized testing, relegating the quality of
When No Child Left Behind’s law was enacted in 2001, little did teachers know what was set ahead for both them and their students in the classroom. Those who supported the bill believed that it would hold schools accountable their students’ success. Teachers were not prepared for what was to come, needing to set aside daily student work for more time to teach students how to take the test. So how did testing become such a glitch in the education system in the first place?This paper will argue that there are flaws in today’s standardized testing, relegating the quality of