Standardized tests

public school system as analyzed. At the time the report was written almost twenty-three million Americans were illiterate. On top of the illiteracy epidemic, standardized test scores had been decreasing since the Russians launched sputnik almost twenty-five years prior. Edward Graham of the National education association states, “Test scores were rapidly declining, low teaching salaries and poor teacher training programs were leading to a high turnover rate among educators, and other…

Argumentative Standardized testing Do you think students have to take standardized tests? I don’t think that we should have to take standardized because it worries you to the point where you can’t go to sleep the night before. And if you told some people that it worried you to the point where you can’t go to sleep they would be the counterclaim and say just think about something else. They are the people that like to argue and make a scene. Another reason I say no is because it stresses you…

High stakes testing. We all read about standardized tests in the newspapers, watch reporters talk about it on the evening news, and read statistics about them online. When No Child Left Behind’s law was enacted in 2001, little did teachers know what was set ahead for both them and their students in the classroom. Those who supported the bill believed that it would hold schools accountable their students’ success. Teachers were not prepared for what was to come, needing to set aside daily…

As a senior in high school I have spent thirteen years of my life in the public school system participating in countless standardized test. My third grade year our school system began taking SOL’s, standards of learning, and it was then that education switched from what the teachers felt was important to what the government insisted we needed to know. It was then that it no longer mattered what we knew instead, all that mattered was we could fill in answers to obtain a grade of excellence.…

Left Behind Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. In 2001 the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was approved, mandating annual testing in all 50 states. Since then, the use of standardized tests skyrocketed in American elementary and secondary schools. The NCLB has received a substantial amount of critics since its enactment, only increasing over time. The main criticism against the act is that it forces education to take the shape of an annual test, rather…

amount of standardized testing that has criticism from many stakeholders. Does standardized testing accurately evaluate students and the quality of education they receive? The educational lens doesn’t include the economics of test making corporations, psychological aspects, or the historical course of standardized testing but includes teachers, parents, and students perspectives on whether standardized tests are beneficial for use of evaluating students’ academic standing. Standardized tests…

Standardized Testing: A Necessary Evil It’s standardized testing day at school and tensions are running high as you strive to get the best possible scores. Then you ask yourself, what is the purpose of standardized tests? Standardized tests come in many forms and are used by most developed nations’ educational systems. In the U.S., examples of standardized tests include the SAT, ACT, MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, ACTFL, and PARCC, but the list includes many others. A U.S. high school freshman might…

Standardized Testing What happened to the time when learning was about learning? At what point did the pressure to score well on a test affect a child’s education more than learning? Creativity in education has been eradicated, and kids are feeling more stress than ever before in history to score highly. According to the American Foundation of Suicide in 2003, before the education reform, the suicide rate was only 9.5; however, by 2013 after Common Core was integrated into the school system,…

should not be the only deciding factor in any student’s acceptance into college and society there after. With american culture and education becoming more obsessed with test scores and less concerned with the academic ability of the student and potential to learn, the country could soon be facing many problems as this generation of the test based learning is pushed out into the real world without the proper knowledge needed to be prepared. College readiness assessments have been the center of…

While teachers cannot control standardized testing, they can control assessment in the classroom. Under IDEA 2004 Nondiscriminatory Assessment, it discusses how each student needs to be tested in the language that they are most familiar with. One example would be when a student is shown…