Today students in the United States are being bombarded with standardized tests throughout the year and many of these students do not do as well or as expected. Standardized tests are used to either determine if a child is able to proceed to the next course or to measure the student’s growth throughout the years. Standardized test also measures which teachers and schools are teaching their students better, which leaves a bad reputation for the school’s who are having low scores. The problem with standardized tests is that educators do not think about the disadvantages for students across the United States. Standardized test cannot be trusted, they do not show what happens throughout the year or how students do in class; which makes standardized test inaccurate.
One of the issues with …show more content…
In a statistic shown by Marion Barlow, he shows that two years ago, less than ten percent of the students in North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, and Louisiana took the SAT. More than seventy percents of the east coast (Including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia), took it (Barlow). This shows that in some societies standardized testing is not popular in some parts of the country. In the North West area there are many people who do not go to school due to there being many plantations and agriculture in the area, to which the people need to survive off of and make their living. The SAT for example is not a required standardized test so therefore it is not good for showing growth throughout the year since each year more students can take it or less students can take it (Strauss). This will confuse parents about which schools are better because many people believe that SAT’s measure how well educational institutions, districts and states are (Strauss). But since not every single student takes a stand seized test it makes them
One of the issues with …show more content…
In a statistic shown by Marion Barlow, he shows that two years ago, less than ten percent of the students in North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, and Louisiana took the SAT. More than seventy percents of the east coast (Including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia), took it (Barlow). This shows that in some societies standardized testing is not popular in some parts of the country. In the North West area there are many people who do not go to school due to there being many plantations and agriculture in the area, to which the people need to survive off of and make their living. The SAT for example is not a required standardized test so therefore it is not good for showing growth throughout the year since each year more students can take it or less students can take it (Strauss). This will confuse parents about which schools are better because many people believe that SAT’s measure how well educational institutions, districts and states are (Strauss). But since not every single student takes a stand seized test it makes them