Supersede The Standardized Test
Do colleges put too much stock in standardized test? Do formalistic tests create too much pressure to students? What schools could use Instead of standardized tests? Test should be superseded, and education should face the world with a brand-new outlook.
With the era changing, people gradually raise the awareness of attending colleges and there is an increasing number of people taking universities before involved into work. As Golgi has said, “Books are the ladder of human progress.” People seem to learn about the importance of books and set off the wave of taking universities. To take China as an example, in 2010 the number of students studying in different versions of higher education institutions in China …show more content…
At the very beginning, there was only a small group of people standing out to against it. In 2000, Alife Kohn wrote a book named The Case Against Standardized Testing. He mentioned that the function of standardized test was far from helping to “close the gap”; and the use of standardized testing is most damaging for low-income and minority students. His opinions attracted public attention, which brought this problem to egalitarianism level. The inequality created by standardized test arouse public indignation. Especially in America, a nation where public culture emphasizes on equality. Most people hole the view that the standardized test definitely hinders the building of student’s free personalities. In September 2008, the National Association for College Admission Counseling released a report urging colleges to drop standardized testing as an entrance requirement. These studies indicated that college should not rely on a test with invariable answer. If students are birds who dare to dream, they should be trapped in the cage of test. Before long, the rest of the world heeded the recommendation that college acceptance should not only be based on the formalistic test. An increasing number of international medias published article to convince public to abandon test. and society’s voice support us to drop standardized tests. The Mar. 04 edition of the TIME, John Cloud questioned the world--Should SATs Matter? He laid his finger on that SAT should not be the standard anymore. In the past decades , over 280 of the nation's 2,083 four-year higher institutions of education make the SAT optional for some or all applicants. Judging form this, it’s easy to see that the test's defenders have started to lose
Do colleges put too much stock in standardized test? Do formalistic tests create too much pressure to students? What schools could use Instead of standardized tests? Test should be superseded, and education should face the world with a brand-new outlook.
With the era changing, people gradually raise the awareness of attending colleges and there is an increasing number of people taking universities before involved into work. As Golgi has said, “Books are the ladder of human progress.” People seem to learn about the importance of books and set off the wave of taking universities. To take China as an example, in 2010 the number of students studying in different versions of higher education institutions in China …show more content…
At the very beginning, there was only a small group of people standing out to against it. In 2000, Alife Kohn wrote a book named The Case Against Standardized Testing. He mentioned that the function of standardized test was far from helping to “close the gap”; and the use of standardized testing is most damaging for low-income and minority students. His opinions attracted public attention, which brought this problem to egalitarianism level. The inequality created by standardized test arouse public indignation. Especially in America, a nation where public culture emphasizes on equality. Most people hole the view that the standardized test definitely hinders the building of student’s free personalities. In September 2008, the National Association for College Admission Counseling released a report urging colleges to drop standardized testing as an entrance requirement. These studies indicated that college should not rely on a test with invariable answer. If students are birds who dare to dream, they should be trapped in the cage of test. Before long, the rest of the world heeded the recommendation that college acceptance should not only be based on the formalistic test. An increasing number of international medias published article to convince public to abandon test. and society’s voice support us to drop standardized tests. The Mar. 04 edition of the TIME, John Cloud questioned the world--Should SATs Matter? He laid his finger on that SAT should not be the standard anymore. In the past decades , over 280 of the nation's 2,083 four-year higher institutions of education make the SAT optional for some or all applicants. Judging form this, it’s easy to see that the test's defenders have started to lose