Could you imagine a world without tests? I know I would love one! Having a world without tests is something I think the majority of students would like to have, but sadly it is not possible. In school we learn a vast amount of material for each class, and there has to be a way for teachers to determine if you know a material or not. If you ask me, I do not like tests, but I do feel it is necessary for schools to have them.…
Could you imagine cramming for a huge test but not being able to use what you learned in your daily routine or sometime in life? Standardized tests are not furthering students education. A test is based on showing what you know. Schools blow so much money on these tests. Tests increase the discrimination in schools.…
I think that people need to change the way we have students take tests. This is because standardized tests are ineffective, they haven’t improved achievement, and they cause severe stress. The first reason I believe that we should change the way students take tests is because these tests are ineffective. Tests don’t prepare children for productive adult…
Imagine being stuck in a bare, silent and chilly room for several hours, nothing but a #2 pencil and a testing booklet to keep you company. This was the reality for many children as, a few days ago, high school students in America sat down to take the PSAT, just one of the many standardized test they will take and have taken throughout their academic careers. A standardized test is a type of test where students are given the same range of questions in similar testing environments in order to judge and compare their scores. Standardized tests are being administered more and more as of late, due to increased funding and acts such as the 2001 No Child Left Behind act which encouraged the use of standardized tests in school. However, there has been much controversy around whether forcing students to take more standardized tests is a good thing, as there is evidence that they are biased, inaccurate, and do the education system more harm than good.…
Kayla Marlatt English III Hour 5 Ms Maggert 18 December 2016 Standardized Testing: is it Really Worth it? Students hate tests, it is a concept understood by a majority of American children ranging from seven to seventeen.…
Standardized Testing Does Not Accurately Represent Educational Quality Standardized tests are tests that are administered by the state and are graded in a consistent or “standard” manner. They are administered in hopes to measure a student's aptitude by assessing how well a student understands a collection of curriculum that the government deems is necessary for all high school students to understand. These tests are administered all across America. Tests such as the ACT and SAT are highly considered by colleges and universities in hopes to increase competition and ensure that only people who are “qualified” are allowed admittance to the school. Standardized tests are, in theory, necessary and beneficial to teachers and students…
Standardized Testing in Schools Standardized testing has been an inevitable part of life for countless Americans, making them question the validity of their life choices since the third grade. When taking standardized tests, one encounters some obvious drawbacks. Any student who has been forced to take one of the hundreds that exist can recount the tales of stress and feelings of inadequacy that linger after every test taken. Standardized testing does not benefit students because it objectifies certain race/ethnic groups, it doesn’t measure the test taker’s mental capacity or progress, and it is not worth the unnecessary problems for students.…
A developing controversy surrounding standardized test may have you question what education is really coming to. Topics concerning standardized tests have been a growing controversy since 2004, and even in 2016, the issues surrounding them refuse to cease. The way standardized test are used now; are to measure, predict, and compare a student’s intelligence and academic performance, and a schools ability to provide students with a strong academic performance. Even some school districts are against what standardized tests are doing, for example, in 2012, more than 100 Texas school districts passed a resolution claiming that standardized tests are “strangling” public schools. School districts came together passing a resolution arguing that standardized…
Use of Standardized Tests in Education “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I can guarantee you that.” A wise statement made by First Lady Michelle Obama on the effectiveness of standardized testing in our nation’s public schools (Last). The current use of such testing in the United States has proven non-beneficial to student education for the long-term in an unsettling amount of ways, including that of its unreliable measurability and general ineffectiveness at measuring individual student performance. Standardized tests are neither fair nor objective.…
“Testing of students in the United States is now [approximately] 150 years old” (Alcocer, Paulina. " History of Standardized Testing in the United States."). Rigorous testing has become engrained into the American educational system. I disagree with the countless challenging tests subjected upon the modern student because exams such as the SAT, ACT, Iowa Basics, PSAT/NMSQT are weighted too heavily, are not accurate or full representations of a student, and correlative studies have displayed that families with lower income yield children with lower test scores creating an uneven testing terrain in the United States. Standardized tests have become not only greater influences on a child’s future but also more common in a student’s life.…
These tests can make or break a student 's grade or chance to getting into the college of their dreams. Standardized tests are important and should not be taken lightly. While some people find these tests to be unfair and have no use, there are many valuable reasons that all students must complete these…
In conclusion, schools should get rid of standardized testing. They are a large waste of time, they do not improve students’ education, and they discriminate between “winners” and “losers”. Originally, these tests were supposed to measure your intelligence and predict how well your capacity to learn is. But now, standardized tests are just big problems that don’t help teachers nor students.…
Proponents argue that standardized tests have been deteriorating education in America, but extensive longitudinal studies and national surveys over the past year says otherwise. Standardized testing has been around since 1905 starting with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. Fast forward fifteen years, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) was created. In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing new achievement tests designed to evaluate instructional methods and schools. Standardized testing ever since couple years of it’s introduction has stirred up controversy on the basis of racial bias, reliability, and discrimination.…
The problem is, is that all students aren’t the same and colleges want diverse, critical-thinking students. Standardized tests are not an effective way to test students skills and abilities to get colleges what they want. Standardized tests should not be used in college admissions because they are not a good representation of what a student can do academically, there are more…
Standardized testing has been around for many years, as far back as the nineteenth century. Like standardized tests are today, they were mainly used to make decisions about college admissions and high school graduation. Now, standardized tests are used more for college admissions than high school graduation. After World War II, standardized tests were administrated more broadly. Many of the educators liked standardized tests because of the fact that they evaluate a student’s performance in a more objective and scientific process.…