Why Do Students Need Standardized Testing?

Every student lives a different life with different hardships, meaning that the way each student feels and lives is impossibly different. Standardizing all the variables that occur in the lives of students is impossible, especially with a written test. Standardized testing is not completely at fault, as it is clearly impossible to prevent all problems in every single student’s life. However, if the test is not capable of adjusting to those problems then it should not have so much impact on students’ lives. Standardized tests try to generalize all students, but each student is completely different from the others. There are many ways in which the standardized tests can be improved and help negate a small portion of the bias present in the test. Focusing less on the scores of standardized tests and more on GPA allows students to be judged not only for their intelligence but also their determination and …show more content…
Special aid programs for families of students provide students with a much needed personal security that will allow them to focus on their studies and not what they have to live with when they go home. There are hundreds of ways that the standardized tests can be improved to not only increase test scores but student health. Yet, despite the multiple improvements that can be made, standardized tests remain biased. Although standardized testing can be capable of measuring student intelligence, there little attempt to improve the test to correct bias. The test carries an immense influence on colleges and society in general, but the test’s importance in society is unprecedented, as a single biased test is capable of changing the future of students. Thus, for the standardized testing to be able to carry so much influence in society, it needs to be adjusted in a way that accounts for all problems that students face that affect test scores, limits the significance and influence of the test in society and continually improves to prevent new bias from