Standardized tests

schools’ ineffective curriculum and standardized tests. In this literature review, I will review ten articles that explain why standardized tests are to blame for declining education standards in the United States, how standardized tests are detrimental to our students, and how they are putting too much pressure upon our students.…

Standardized Tests Take Away the Love of Learning In March of 2009, the Alliance for Childhood conducted research on kindergartens, and the results were shocking. It was found that playtime in many kindergartens had all but vanished. Fun and games had been replaced by lessons and standardized tests (“Standardized Tests”). Standardized tests have become a regular part of school. Children are introduced to testing at a young age, and the tests continue throughout most of their school years,…

Imagine a young child sitting in class about to take a standardized test. They sit there clutching your Number 2 pencil, trying to steady the shaking of their hands. This test could completely change their future occupation or where you attend college. They aren’t the valedictorian of their class, but they get pretty good grades, except when it comes to tests. They’ve never been a good test taker, and the stress always gets to them. While it is true that, that students may learn the material…

Use of Standardized Tests in Education “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I can guarantee you that.” A wise statement made by First Lady Michelle Obama on the effectiveness of standardized testing in our nation’s public schools (Last). The current use of such testing in the United States has proven non-beneficial to student education for the long-term in an unsettling amount of ways, including that of its unreliable measurability and…

Many if standardized tests are a bad or good thing to give students. The preparation itself is harmful towards the teachers and students. The teachers must have taught their students the appropriate curriculum for the standardized tests, in order for their students to prove they have the potential to pass these kinds of tests. “Teachers have such pressure to get their students ready for these exams that they neglect to teach students skills that go beyond the tests.”(Columbia…

work on papers and take multiple tests throughout the year, or, to take a major test that applies for more than all of your average grades combined? A test that covers everything over a 36 week period is obviously going to be harder and more stressful than a test that covers curriculum that a student has just retained. Should we really be putting this kind of pressure on high school students? Myself, having already taken 3 of the 5 necessary STAAR tests in order to graduate high…

numbers that define them: GPA, class rank, and standardized test scores such as the ACT or SAT. In fact, the SAT exam was first offered in the late 1930’s to help students without family connections or money be acknowledged by top Ivy League schools (Westervelt). Newly formed colleges and universities followed the decision of the Ivy League schools and implemented the SAT which increased the pressure on all students. The expectation to succeed…

Are standardized tests accurately measuring knowledge? Some people support standardized testing and some people are against them. I believe standardized test are not accurate measures of success in some conditions because, there are possibilities of the questions not being valid and the test do not measure life skills… First, standardized tests are used to judge teachers and students too much. “Basing teacher evaluations on inadequate standardized tests is a recipe for flawed evaluations,” says…

students have to take standardized test? “If the purpose for learning is to score well on a test, we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning” Said Jeannie Fulbright. Students should not have to take standardized test. Standardised test put too much stress on the students, we could be learning more and they say that it cost way too much. First, do the test put too much stress on the students? Students test almost for four weeks. We get tired of doing all of these test. Some people…

from the beautiful environment. This sounds so boring! Students should not have to take standardized tests because they take too much time, they are overwhelming, and teachers stress the children way too much! First of all, according to Newsela, each student spends at least 20 to 25 hours on tests each year. Parents, that is like your child getting up at twelve o’clock in the morning on a Monday and working on tests until it is twelve o’clock in the morning on Tuesday! Mind-blowing isn’t it? On…