Benefits And Disadvantages Of Standardized Testing

Standardized testing is often scrutinized by teachers instead of being looked at in a positive manner. There are many ways to utilize such a test. The best possible way would be to teach to the test. It not only benefits the original reason standardized tests are in place, it also provides a backbone for what to teach. It allows you to stay within professional boundaries and also allows the teacher to teach to their liking with what material is provided. A process such as this would help with curbing, it provides a variable result, not always monitored but shows an overall performance. Not one student would be left behind with this option in place. The test can be used as a guide from previous years. This would be both productive and feasible to all. Nothing is looked down upon in any shape or form …show more content…
Cheating by normal means removes all morals potentially and is breaking rules by whoever set them. Who sets them is what people should be asking in the first place. Kohn, for example, brings up a great point on how cheating is potentially becoming a problem, a quick way to be rewarded. The situation as well adds greatly to the issue, “A deep analysis of cheating may lead us to investigate not only the situations that give rise to it but the process by which we come to decide what will be classified as cheating in the first place” (Kohn 8). Standardized testing potentially brings a rise to cheating to get quick results and therefore would make everyone happy if the scores were high. Teachers complain of different subjects not being covered or the test focused on one area too much. Every teacher is unique in their teaching style it makes them who they are and having a forced test at the end of the year is worrisome. Instead, teachers should go along with the test or certain subjects that repeat potentially every year on the