Argument Essay On Standardized Testing

Standardized testing, when all students throughout the country are tested on what they have learned through the year. It begins in the first grade and continues through the years of every young child’s education. It tests to see what the student has retained that year, and to make sure that the school is up to standards on what is being taught in the classrooms. While standardized testing is a good thing in making sure educators know what to teach, and it holds schools accountable for education, it is also outdated and has room for improvement. Standardized tests allows for a broad comparison of different states and school districts to see where everyone is placed. Also it shows what areas need improvement and can give insight to educators …show more content…
It shows the general information that is required by the state for the students to know. They ensure teachers and schools are accountable for taxpayers, and the most relevant to parents and institutions. Thirdly it gives a good standing point of where the child is in their education comparing to other students across the state locally and throughout the country. Standardized testing can be used in many different ways in testing students to ensure they are capable to move onto the next level of learning. They also show problem areas where the student could use extra work in order to better their education. Overall testing students in their education could be a good thing in that it would help show where they stand in their learning. With a way to measure a student’s knowledge and the ways educators teach, teachers could be paid more with good test scores, and the student could get into the school of his or her …show more content…
It does not take into account the external factors of a student’s life, or what could be happening that day or week in the student’s home life, if something is distracting them those weeks then they are more likely to do poorly on the test then what they actually know, even if a student is more nervous than usual and cannot focus on the test. Also the test only accounts for what is in that test, and not how much the student has actually progressed through the year considering students start at all different levels. According to Bill Tucker in “Grand test auto: the end of testing,” the world around us is changing yet we still hold up the same standards for our tests, the same testing methods, and the same grading methods. Everything in the twenty first century is more effective from what it used to be in say the fifties or even the nineties; we have better ways of transportation, and better ways to go about our everyday lives, so why have we not found better ways to test our students in what they