Standardized tests

you would finish your test and still sit in silence for hours while other students finished. Now you realize that the test you took back then has not helped your education today. Standardized tests have been questioned about if they help America’s education or not for years. However, standardized tests cause students to feel pressured to do well and do not prepare students for their future lives. Therefore, standardized tests are not improving education in America. Standardized testing may…

Eliminate Standardized Tests American students today undergo the burden of standardized testing, an attempt by the education system to evaluate each student’s knowledge of key subjects such as mathematics and reading. However, many students fall prey to a narrowing of the curriculum with a sole focus on standardized test subjects and an inflation of the achievement gap between non-minority and minority students; this causes tension within the school system and furthers the increase of failure…

teaching for means has improved test scores according to the NAEP results. In general, Wenglinsky promotes the idea that both a basic skill curriculum and a teaching for meaning approach is needed, but a teaching for meaning approach plays a bigger role. Chapter four and five in Ravitch’s book addresses how test scores aren’t accurate, and are…

Standardized tests are a well known controversial issue that have resulted in an ongoing, continuous concern for years. In todays educational systems, teachers and school boards rely heavily on standardized testing in order to form some sort of idea for as to where the knowledge of their students ' stands, as well as the ability they may or may not contain. These specific types of tests supposedly carry the ability to measure a child 's knowledge, but are they really accurate? Many people have…

he did not pass one of his standardized tests. These tests are also known as “high stakes” because they determine whether or not the student is eligible for a diploma or a promotion to the next grade. How would you feel if you knew that taking tests is one of your child’s weaknesses, and now it determines his future? Do you think that it’s fair to the students; who are already low achievers, English is their second language, or have learning disabilities? These tests lead to an increase in high…

Not only students feel the wrath of standardized testing, throughout the country many schools are forced to give these tests. If not given schools can lose their funding. If the schools cut the standardized testing, many teachers would lose their job, due to funding being cut by the state and the national government. If the national government decided to not require schools to give the ACT or SAT, and the money was instead,“... put toward teacher raises, the report estimates that each teacher…

Jay Archibald ELA 9 Mrs. Macey 21 December 2016 Jay Archibald: standardized tests Do you think there should be standardized tests taken in school? School officials are debating if there should still be standardized tests in the educational process across America. For years now, America has made a computer based test that students take in school on the subjects they are learning. They have used these tests to show achievements and our progress in education for the students and the teachers. We…

districts have opted into Common Core, standardized tests, and many other issues. While there are some positives to schools starting to standardize education, there are still many more negatives to it. Standardized testing has been in the United States’ education curriculum since the mid- 1800s (procon.org, 2016). So, standardized testing in not anything new. Even though the premises of the tests have been around for almost a couple hundred of years, the tests are not perfect and still cause…

Often, this is caused by poor standardized test scores. Standardized testing is a part of every student’s school year. Students’ knowledge is not always measured correctly with standardized tests. This can lead to stress for students and poor conclusions about their intelligence. Standardized testing is not an accurate measurement of achievement because it is an unreliable measure of students’ intelligence, it changes the curriculum, and causes stress. Standardized testing is an unreliable…

on standardized tests.” (Barack Obama) The number of standardized tests has escalated in the last decade, which has caused the level of stress of students to rise quickly, standardized testing should not be required in public schools. Why have the number of tests escalated in the last ten years? David Whittemore says, “Each time a law is created regarding education, more tests are added to it.” A student who is in school from kindergarten to graduating high school has taken over sixty tests in…