Many students are pressured by teachers worried about their salaries to do well on tests, and the stress is enormous, puking level enormous. If they score badly, students may be placed in special needs classes or kicked out of advanced classes like this eighth grade girl who confronted her school board about the impact of her low scores on the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test): “Every year I do good in school, but I get low test scores on the FCAT and it feels like a punch in the stomach... This is unfair and I don’t want to lose my opportunity to take my advanced classes or get better education because of one test.” (LastWeekTonight). That by itself sounds horrible, but she also made a good point: one cannot accurately test the academic ability of each individual student with only one, standard test. Doing so would not account for other variables which could account for lower scores, what if the student forgot to eat breakfast that day, or she had high stress levels, or maybe she is just a bad test
Many students are pressured by teachers worried about their salaries to do well on tests, and the stress is enormous, puking level enormous. If they score badly, students may be placed in special needs classes or kicked out of advanced classes like this eighth grade girl who confronted her school board about the impact of her low scores on the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test): “Every year I do good in school, but I get low test scores on the FCAT and it feels like a punch in the stomach... This is unfair and I don’t want to lose my opportunity to take my advanced classes or get better education because of one test.” (LastWeekTonight). That by itself sounds horrible, but she also made a good point: one cannot accurately test the academic ability of each individual student with only one, standard test. Doing so would not account for other variables which could account for lower scores, what if the student forgot to eat breakfast that day, or she had high stress levels, or maybe she is just a bad test