Standardized testing has been praised since there first use of seeing who 's compatible for jobs in China. The West culture soon adopted them using them for military, and soon enough the education culture. They are now most famously used for education in America and are well known as the ACT and the SAT. As you may know, these tests are designed in a way which are recorded and administered in a consistent method. Since there overuse they have now been giving students unneeded stress, underdeveloped routines, artificial learning environments and giving states problems with socio-economic advantages, with very high cheating rates, along with a false of sense security. These tests are undoubtedly are advantageable for political and financial
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This leads to question the real need of all this testing. This decade is very adamant about kids passing throughs school, and standardized testing is the most easy way of determining certain fields of their education, but is all this standardized testing really needed? Now since the use of standardized tests have increased in popularity, there have been many instances that show how standardized testing is inaccurate and potentially hurting the minds of students, with insufficient ways of preparing for a test.This trend slowly found it’s way personally into the classroom. According to the NEA 72 percent of teachers are replying saying that stress is “moderate” or “extreme”. So why is this? Teachers are now taught to have a quota on the amount of students to receive a certain score. Teachers are given direct orders from administrators, and this can cause an overload of stress. When the teachers knows a potential of a class, and knows he can 't meet the expectation, there will be flaws in the system. This is fundamentally wrong, and can put kids in an advantage and disadvantage by just the teacher you …show more content…
When someone scores high it comes with a sense of knowing the material very well. When really, there 's a lot of tricks and patterns in these standardized tests. A group of harvard graduates were asked why it was hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and they couldn 't answer it. This shows how just a test lets you in a school but just scratches the surface on how well you know some material. This can greatly affect students because they can go out into the world not knowing fundamentals. There is a lack of showing how students show real understand of basic algebra, and analysis. These are fundamentals, but there is no signs of showing real knowledge with a test that has backpaths. This also benefits the more wealthy, because they will be in extra curricular classes to help the test score, while the unfortunate have to take it without the
This leads to question the real need of all this testing. This decade is very adamant about kids passing throughs school, and standardized testing is the most easy way of determining certain fields of their education, but is all this standardized testing really needed? Now since the use of standardized tests have increased in popularity, there have been many instances that show how standardized testing is inaccurate and potentially hurting the minds of students, with insufficient ways of preparing for a test.This trend slowly found it’s way personally into the classroom. According to the NEA 72 percent of teachers are replying saying that stress is “moderate” or “extreme”. So why is this? Teachers are now taught to have a quota on the amount of students to receive a certain score. Teachers are given direct orders from administrators, and this can cause an overload of stress. When the teachers knows a potential of a class, and knows he can 't meet the expectation, there will be flaws in the system. This is fundamentally wrong, and can put kids in an advantage and disadvantage by just the teacher you …show more content…
When someone scores high it comes with a sense of knowing the material very well. When really, there 's a lot of tricks and patterns in these standardized tests. A group of harvard graduates were asked why it was hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and they couldn 't answer it. This shows how just a test lets you in a school but just scratches the surface on how well you know some material. This can greatly affect students because they can go out into the world not knowing fundamentals. There is a lack of showing how students show real understand of basic algebra, and analysis. These are fundamentals, but there is no signs of showing real knowledge with a test that has backpaths. This also benefits the more wealthy, because they will be in extra curricular classes to help the test score, while the unfortunate have to take it without the