Why Standardized Tests Don T Measure Educational Quality

I believe that the teacher’s curriculum are given from the head of the department of the subject they are teaching. When the head of the department gives the new teacher’s the curriculum they have to follow what topics to teach to the students and the orders each topic goes by which topic is first and onwards. But after a few years teacher’s can make their own curriculum to teach the students. But when the students have to take the standardized or regents exam at the end of the year that would be based on the amount of information that teachers would teach the students during the semester. The curriculum that the teachers are teaching the students are based on the amount of knowledge that teachers are teaching students from the curriculum. …show more content…
James Popham says that “these days, if a school's standardized test scores are high, people think the school's staff is effective. If a school's standardized test scores are low, they see the school's staff as ineffective. In either case, because educational quality is being measured by the wrong yardstick, those evaluations are apt to be in error” (Popham 1999). This is true when whether a new teacher is using the curriculum that the head of the department gives them or if experience teachers would want to change the way that the curriculum teaches the students to something a little bit more easier for the students to understand the topics and wouldn’t have enough time to do everything on the curriculum and would need to skip or do less time on a certain topic or tell the students to study the topic on their