Standardized tests

Standardized tests according to Pearson, one of the leading education companies in charge of administering standardized tests for students from third to eighth grade, are a means to understanding what exactly is takes place in a classroom. This entails "why a child might be struggling, succeeding, or accelerating on specific elements of their grade-level standards” (O’Malley). The great controversy of the matter is that proponents of standardized testing argue that standardized tests are fair…

huge test but not being able to use what you learned in your daily routine or sometime in life? Standardized tests are not furthering students education. A test is based on showing what you know. Schools blow so much money on these tests. Tests increase the discrimination in schools. Students focus on tests rather than daily skills. Teachers teach for these tests and less skills. Why should students have to take big tests on things you might not ever need later in life? Standardized tests may…

more superior than the rest. Standardized testing has put labels on everyone who has taken the exams. The results from the tests are merely a number and a number does not say anything about a student. The number does not reflect their personality; how they think, how they learn. The number is simply a score of how well children are at filling in bubbles. Yet this number is thought to be so important by schools. Students should not be labeled by a score off of a test. Within recent years, the…

Diane Ravitch said, “Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.” In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act was initiated and mandated annual testing in all 50 states. Since then, the U.S. dropped from 18th in the world in math with a similar decline in science. Standardized testing has been a topic of conversation since the beginning of No Child Left Behind, and it needs to be solved. It affects teachers and…

students as failures for not meeting the goals of the curriculum for the test, but that’s simply not true. How can we label our students as failures, when it is us who are failing them? Failing to bring out their own passions and encourage lessons that fit their needs. Let individuality shine through and reach the hearts of our children to have more passionate doctors saving our lives. Teaching them to excessively take test will not help our children in their adult lives (Procon,…

resident of Florida thought school would be similar to how they taught him in Virginia. He was sadly mistaken. After enrolling in Florida’s schools he was buried underneath a pile of tests. The “prep” is a Florida Standard Assessment and had caused much controversy in Florida already. Cadence found that “the emphasis on test scores in his class was so intense that, his mom said, it has made him hate going to school…” (Strauss). With his speech problem already hindering his education and now with…

American students are burdened with standardized tests, which are an attempt by the education system to evaluate each student’s knowledge of “key” subjects such as mathematics and reading, and were first introduced at the close of the first World War. However, with the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, students fall prey to extreme stress and anxiety, as well as a narrowing of the curriculum with a sole focus on standardized test subjects. Standardized testing also inflates the…

favor of and against proficiency, or standardized tests. While to a certain, albeit small degree, I can understand how standardized testing can be beneficial to assess students and teachers, and potentially halt social promotion, the practice of allowing students to advance from grade to grade whether or not they have met the academic standards of their grade level. I do not agree that proficiency tests are the answer for our children’s education. Proficiency tests are rarely standard state to…

answer after answer. Terms, AIMS, Finals- they all mean the same thing- standardized testing. Standardized tests undermine education quality, consume valuable time and funds, and discourage higher level thinking and creativity. The bottom line? Standardized tests are doing our students more harm than good. The amount of emphasis put on standardized tests compromises the quality of a student’s education. The purpose of tests is not only to evaluate student performance, but also to assess teacher…

room hearing the ticking of the clock above you this is it the big test that you have been studying for. You sit there thinking is the room too hot? Or too cold? That lights way to bright isn’t in? What if you don’t finish in time? Or worse, what if you fail? You hear the scratching of pencils on paper and you just seem to forget everything you have learned this past year, now you begin to feel sick. This is what many of the young test takers feel today, fear some of which causes the children to…