Argumentative Essay On Standardized Testing

To many students standardized testing has become another part of schooling that is dreaded. Standardized testing has been a part of school since the nineteen-thirties; in those days it was used as a way to measure students that had special needs. Since the time that standardized test have been in American schools there has been many programs that have placed an importance on the idea of standardized testing such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Evans 1). Over the years the importance of standardized testing has increased tremendously and so has the stakes, not only for teachers but also students. All states in the United States of America have state test in order to measure how much students learn, and help tell how well the

Standardized test are a big issue in today’s education system. Some people feel that they are stressful to students. Others feel that they are good for measuring educational growth. This argument gets more in depth when it comes to standardized test being a requirement for a student to graduate. This is because you could have a student that is very intelligent but is not a good test taker, and if they do not meet the state standards on standardized test they will not graduate regardless of how smart they are and many feel this is unfair. On the other hand, some feel that having these test as a graduation requirement is a good thing because they show exactly what and how much a student has learned through the course of the year.From this argument

Bob Schaeffer, a public education director once said, "You don’t make a sheep fatter by weighing them more often." (Nagourney, 2) This represents the process of Standardized Testing and one of the risks it causes, testing too often. Standardized Testing is a process where all students take the same kind of test with similar questions all addressing the same subjects and are scored in a consistent way as groups or as individuals. There are many risks in Standardized Testing, that is why Standardized testing should be revised due to negative effects.

Do you know how young present day students start taking standardized test? Students present day start taking standardized test when they are in pre-k.The government needs to modify test because when kids are in pre-k they are only 4 or 5 and so they shouldn’t worry about test they should be living life as a kid. so the government needs to modify standardized test. In this essay I will persuade the reader that the government needs to modify the test because all 1,students test to much, 2,the tests put pressure and stress on the kids and teachers, and 3,the test take too much test time away from students learning other things.

Standardized testing has been used in the United States for years while its role in education has expanded by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Standardized testing was created to promote equality within the education system; to treat and teach all students the same. The use of this test was also meant to measure the students ' progress in math and reading, as well as to determine a student promotion to the next grade; but at what cost? Preparation for standardized tests is almost twenty-four-seven, every year from third grade to eighth grade. The preparation that takes up valuable learning time in school. The preparation that is a waste to the students ' future in college and life beyond school. Standardized testing seems to demand so much from schools; not to mention its impending threat on schools to label them with bad reputations or closing them down. With such a threat breathing down the necks of the school 's encouragement to cut quality education to meet the standards to ‘survive ' is tempting. Teachers would teach primary to the favor of the test and, if given the opportunity, schools would scandalously claim and put their low-scoring students in special education programs to exempt them from taking the test. Standardized testing is damaging our biggest number one priority; which is our education, an important factor that strongly impacts the children of our future!

Standardized testing what is it good for? No, really why does the United States school systems have standardized test starting as early as 1st grade, also the tests does not really show the student’s own knowledge. There are three main reasons that standardized testing is bad for students to clarify, does it depict the knowledge of student correctly, schools/teachers teaching just for the test, and testing anxiety. First, people learn more than just math, science, English, and history (these are four main topics) they are the only one that schools can easily grade, however, they do not, have standardized testing for art, mechanical know-how, critical thinking, and common sense. These can be just as beneficial for the student to know if not

How do I do on standardized tests? Well it all depends on what the subject of the test is. If it is English I feel confided that I'll do great on it, but if it is Math, well then there is a problem because I struggle with math a lot. I consider myself a good but sometimes bad test taker because I sometimes don't know the answer to a question and I leave it like that, I don't try my best. Although I sometimes come back to the question and try to solve it again to see what the answer is. In other words I try my best to figure everything out. I prepare for a standardized test my going over what we have learned in the past classes. A night before, I try my best to go over and review old worksheets and repeat the questions on a different piece of

There is also a bad shade to standardized testing. When students take standardized tests, they have to do it in isolation, so that they can minimize cheating. Many of my friends are very smart, and are good hand on test or group projects or even self-project. When it comes to tests, they crack under pressure and do perform well and get bad test grades, but have very high project grades in class. I do agree sometimes putting the whole students grade or academic life on one single test that could determine your future is very nerve wrecking and unfair.

Standardizes test is the way of measuring a student’s intelligence in most of the school nowadays. Standardized test are created in a specific way, student are expected to answer a set of question, usually multiple-choice or false or true questions, in a given certain amount of time. These test are usually used to compare the performance and intelligence of a student a relative situation. However, these tests do not truly expose what a student actually understands and learns, but instead only provide an idea of how a student can do on a generic test. Standardized testing, as they are being used in the modern society, are an erroneous way to test the skills of today's student.

There is not a class I have taken in my twelve years of being a student where I have not had to take a standardized test. Growing up as the oldest child, I was able to see my two younger siblings advance through school, learning how to effectively learn and study in order to pass tests. I had always been adept in not having to study for an assessment so long as I paid attention in class, so seeing my dyslexic brother who also was diagnosed with ADD, struggle with testing was difficult. I realized then that standardized tests don’t value diversity and don’t place importance on any outside creativity a student may possess. My brother is very skilled in drawing and mathematics, but unfortunately standardized tests don’t allow him to express this

School board members, the United States Department of Education, and parents may say that standardized testing is a good way to analyze a student’s success rate in school and their overall advancement, but the students should also have a say in the testing methods used in schools, as they are the ones that it is affecting. Betsy DeVos once said that it is important for the schools and parents to know how the students are learning (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/betsy_devos_states_should_decide_how_much_testing.html) but this may not be possible if the students learning capabilities are not fully expressed in their standardized test grades. Standardized testing also negatively affects English second language speakers, who often are forced to take tests and quizzes in their non-native tongue. A young boy from Spain who had only been speaking English for two years will have to try

Standardized testing has become a prominent feature in most public schools. Standardized tests come in many different forms such as Virginia’s Standards of Learning (SOL), the ACT, and the SAT. These tests often predict if a student can graduate, if he or she will be accepted in his or her dream college, and how well he or she will be in the future. It seems as though a simple test with thirty questions could not be this substantial, but these exams often predict the lives of thousands of students yearly. It is crazyto believe that one test, one number, one letter will define the life of a student, but this is exactly what happens with standardized testing. The tests do not show the intelligence or potential of the students who take these tests. Standardized tests should be stopped immediately because they do not improve individuals; they often diminish the life of each individual involved with them.

“Everyone is a Genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” -Albert Einstein. The modern school system is failing, and standardized tests are the biggest reason behind it. Not only does it ruin creativity and individuality, but a single test can determine a student's future. We should not be taking standardized tests seriously.

Standardized testing has been used for decades to measure students’ understanding, knowledge, and intelligence on school matters such as mathematics, science and language arts. Though stressful, standardized tests provide the government with information on educational disparities and allow students to receive a fair assessment, outside of the direct influence of the teacher. However, over the past few years, standardized testing has gained a reputation for being ineffective; even James Dyson, a British inventor, called the standardized testing system a “lazy” method of evaluation. Unfortunately, due to immense pressure from the public and the teachers' union, the BC Ministry of Education has taken steps to abolish the Provincial Exam system in favor of more “in-class assessments” which they claim will make the learning environment more “flexible.” Regrettably, this decision will only reduce objectivity, comparability, and accountability in the classroom. Thus, the BC Ministry of Education must readopt the Provincial Exam system as a method of evaluation to reinforce the public’s trust in the education system.

Do you remember the days when your teacher handed out the test booklet along with a No. 2 pencil? The use of these particular pencils is a holdover from the 1930s when the machines that graded the answer sheets detected the electrical conductivity of graphite (“Is the Use of Standardized Testing Improving Education in America?”). Standardized testing has been around for almost 150 years with the first ideas of it being presented about 180 years ago (Fletcher). Defined by W. James Popham, former president of the American Educational Research Association, standardized tests are "any test that's administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner." Its long history means that it has come a long way and has just as far to go. That being said, standardized testing is necessary to measure students’ intelligence, but can be improved.