Analysis of “Standardized Tests Effectively Measure Student Achievement” Herbert J. Walberg, a former teacher at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, exhibits his professional views on standardized testing. In the article, “Standardized Tests Effectively Measure Student Achievement” Walberg exhibits his views on the benefits of standardized testing. Walberg says, “Standardized tests fairly and comprehensively measure student performance, thus directly benefiting students while holding teachers accountable.” Then Walberg gives his reasons to support standardized testing, while giving detailed explanations for his reasoning. The first of many benefits that Walberg mentions is that standardized testing provides a good
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Walberg exhibits his perspective on how professionals should take pride in student achievement. Since Herbert was a teacher, he mentions, “Professionals should take pride in seeing good results from their work, and because testing reveals good work and aids rather than detracts from instruction, teachers should embrace it and even get paid for the good performance of their students.” Good student performance on tests should be a source of satisfaction for both the student and the professor. Walberg takes pride in his own students when they perform well on standardized …show more content…
I was very confident on our first day of practice because I am ranked fourth in my class, and have been performing very well in school. It turns out that scholastic bowl is like a whole new world of education. The majority of the questions asked in scholastic bowl are questions would not come from what students would learn in our classes. Due to our teachers being required to teach under specific guidelines in a given amount of time, teachers are unable to teach us other useful or interesting information for scholastic bowl, or just for the sake of students’ learning. We students are unable to learn material like, the transportation of the atomic bomb was a secret mission only the president, people in charge of the operation, and people on the USS Indianapolis were aware of. After the USS Indianapolis successfully delivered the bomb to the Tinian Islands, it was sunk by a Japanese vessel on its return back to America. Many schools do not even give us the useful information of what ship transported the atomic bomb, or where, or who was involved, we simply just learn what cities the atomic bombs were dropped and with a slight chance the teacher might tell you that “Little-Boy” dropped the bomb. And interesting information is also being deprived from us, for example, the people who survived the torpedo blast of the USS Indianapolis were eventually eaten by sharks. I have had at least one teacher in every grade to
Walberg exhibits his perspective on how professionals should take pride in student achievement. Since Herbert was a teacher, he mentions, “Professionals should take pride in seeing good results from their work, and because testing reveals good work and aids rather than detracts from instruction, teachers should embrace it and even get paid for the good performance of their students.” Good student performance on tests should be a source of satisfaction for both the student and the professor. Walberg takes pride in his own students when they perform well on standardized …show more content…
I was very confident on our first day of practice because I am ranked fourth in my class, and have been performing very well in school. It turns out that scholastic bowl is like a whole new world of education. The majority of the questions asked in scholastic bowl are questions would not come from what students would learn in our classes. Due to our teachers being required to teach under specific guidelines in a given amount of time, teachers are unable to teach us other useful or interesting information for scholastic bowl, or just for the sake of students’ learning. We students are unable to learn material like, the transportation of the atomic bomb was a secret mission only the president, people in charge of the operation, and people on the USS Indianapolis were aware of. After the USS Indianapolis successfully delivered the bomb to the Tinian Islands, it was sunk by a Japanese vessel on its return back to America. Many schools do not even give us the useful information of what ship transported the atomic bomb, or where, or who was involved, we simply just learn what cities the atomic bombs were dropped and with a slight chance the teacher might tell you that “Little-Boy” dropped the bomb. And interesting information is also being deprived from us, for example, the people who survived the torpedo blast of the USS Indianapolis were eventually eaten by sharks. I have had at least one teacher in every grade to