Why Is Standardized Testing Unfair

tudents have been denied jobs and scholarship opportunities solely based on the unfair standardized testings used in all schools across america. Standardized testing is useless to the learning and further advancement of student comprehension. Standardized testing is unfair to students from lower income homes, interferes with teachers, and stresses students causing lower self esteem when engaging in classroom activities. Testing of this sort is highly counterproductive and should be abolished. Students from lower income homes are drastically at a disadvantage when referring to standardized testings. In most circumstances Students from lower income homes are not in contact with the same or similar words used in vocabulary specific portions …show more content…
Many teachers ambiguously feel that these tests are too demanding. Teachers are asked to coach students on irrational skills that will be remembered only to pass the test, yet will have no real reminisce or relevance in their lives. Stephen G, wrote “No teacher likes to be overly constrained regarding what she or he should teach. However, no one wants teachers spending large amounts of instructional time teaching knowledge and skills that most would consider unimportant, relative to other skills. (2)”. Many teachers dislike being strictly guided by the curriculum based around these test. However some teachers feel standardized testing has given great order to the classroom. While this may be true in some cases many times it's not. Like at Capital High School. The students were planned to participate in a standard practice test but the computers to take them on were not were not working. Writer robert nott took a first hand account saying “While adults in the room make frantic phone calls and fail at efforts to reboot the computers, the students begin to lose interest. Some talk. Some joke. Two nap. A few make brave efforts to buck the tide and get their computers to respond”(1). while in some cases these test can bring order and a more uniformed outlook, in others it will bring the complete opposite. Teachers dislike the test and the students feel the same. Some go as far to actually become anxious or stressed over …show more content…
Students that are planning on going to college and or further education after high school need to do well on test, they are counted separately from high school course grades. It is common for students to stay up the night before and jam a school year worth of material within a 24 hour time constraint. The stress and sleep deprivation will often causes those students to either forget the material so frivolously examined, or those who do remember the information are often so drained that many sleep during the test. The outcome from such foolish behavior will often result in a less than acceptable result or score. These unsatisfactory results will solely fall on the specific student and their failure to prepare. But there are students that want to work hard and pass yet are still nervous and anxious about the test. In the pennsylvanian school middleburg elementary, there was a huge fuss over young students feeling stress over the PSSA’s. A local reporter Evamarie Socha interviewed students and parents about thoughts on the PSSA’s. She asked the mother of 3rd grade 8 year old Evann Yetter what her and son’s thoughts on the test where. She said “Evann's fear of ‘not getting ahead’ was that he would be held back in third grade if he didn't do well on the standardized tests”(1). This unacceptable, Evann is a 3rd students, within 4 years of being in class room evann feels that even though he is