Standardized Testing Inaccurate

Did you know that between kindergarten and 12th grade students are forced to take 112 standardized test? Some people believe that students take to many test and others think that students take the perfect amount. I believe that students have to take to many tests because they spend to much class time, the test are inaccurate, and other factors effect the test scores. The first piece of evidence that I will be talking about is that the tests take to much class time. Each year students in 3rd grade to 12th grade spend on average between 20-25 hours testing in class. On average between kindergarten and 12th grade students spend 2.3% of classroom time doing standardized testing. Third graders alone have recently been taking 1,240 minutes out of their teaching time for standardized test. These pieces of evidence support my idea that these test have been taking to much time out of the classroom. …show more content…
Most of the standardized test that we take measure only topics such as math, language, history, and science. They should be testing those topics but also some such as creativity and how you can think on the spot. Some other test such as the PSIA only test a few thousand students out of the millions that could be picked. On one test that Americans took they were behind in math, but when they took another test they were just as good at math as everyone else. This shows that their is a flaw in some test that will need to be fixed. These pieces of evidence support my thought about how test are