Arguments Against Standardized Testing

Standardized tests inhibit the ability for students to perform well on stress inducing tests; thus, students question their abilities to succeed, and they lack engagement in their educational learning. Standardized tests produce the feeling of anxiety as heart beats accelerate, bodies’ tremble, faces flush, sweat pores open, hands grip tighter, and muscles tense. As the test dates come closer, students are

In the world today standardized testing is mandatory in all schools whether they are public or private. If schools continue to make these test mandatory, students grades will show the reflection of what they are not learning. The school might also receive less state funding due to poor performance on these tests. Once No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was introduced US students slipped from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st in 2009 (Standardized). Standardized testing is not beneficial overall because it does not cater to all students, they do not cover real-life topics, and they are detrimental to students.

Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance. This is because students go by a certain curriculum in school, but the wording on the tests

The current uproar over standardized testing is being battled by cultural minorities who demand equality. “Cultural bias” refers to the idea that the differences between scores of racial and ethnic groups are caused by a bias towards the “American-born, English-speaking majority” of the US population. From the simple IQ test to the SAT, standardized testing has become an unfair predictor and artificial decision maker for this country’s minority, especially those newly immigrated. Economic and cultural biases leave for little opportunity for these examinees to perform well, partially because of the failure of the government to prepare and assimilate minority students.

There is this idea of how if the teacher’s students do great on the test it means that they are great teachers, which is not necessarily the case. Columbia University states, “Standardized testing causes many teachers to only “teach to the tests,”. This practice can hinder a student’s overall learning potential. With the stakes getting higher and higher for teachers, this practice will only continue to increase. The sad reality is that it fosters an atmosphere that is boring and lacks creativeness. Teachers have such pressure to get their students ready for these exams that they neglect to teach students skills that go beyond the tests.” With the lack of teachers actually using their skills to teach the curriculum and the only thing they teach is how to take tests, school will not be where students would want to learn, and they will eventually drop out in the future. Also teaching tests will not help students in life in any way, especially without the teacher and student

In addition, these tests rates a student’s performance on simply one certain day and does not take into account outside factors. There are many kids who just don’t do good on tests. Many of these students understand the content and are intelligent, but it doesn’t appear on the test. Some students also develop test anxiety, which affects how well they

Stressful standardized testing turns many classrooms into training centers instead of offering an engaging, well-rounded, preparatory environment. Long lectures and teachers preaching causes students to grow bored and dose off ultimately dropping test scores. Students feel like they are nothing more than their test scores, and feel a sense of not knowing who they are. These standardized tests also lead to anxiety and depression in students, and can lead to students feeling like dropping out is the only option. No, standardized testing should not be eliminated completely, but rather be evaluated by universities as well as things such as volunteer hours, extracurricular activities, and grades. “The Essential of a Good Education,” written by Diane Ravitch, states this very clearly. In this aricle: she critizues the education system in America today.

Standardized testing has been a part of the education system since its founding. However Standardized testing and exams should be replaced in favor of another form of assessment because exams fail to achieve their goals. Exams have proven to be stressful from students, adults and professors perspectives. Some say that the system fails to give all pupils fair shot and the students who are exceptionally intelligent who fail assessments “can lack initiative” (Tait, 12). Which states that those who do not have one single set of skills are set up for failure which is unfair to those learners. One student says that exams “Represent cramming, and bad study habits.” (Debate.org, 10). Because while many students do procrastinate and end up stressing double later. Many are never taught how to properly study or how to study in a way that helps them learn best.

With the high-stakes of standardized tests in 2016, there comes numerous problems. One of the main issues is that some students develop test anxiety from all the pressure (Mooney 33). With multiple final exams to take, it becomes difficult for students to successfully study for each exam without sacrificing

Test only cause teachers to only “teach to the test.” Whenever a test is coming up teachers teach similar things to the test, this doesn't really do good to those kids it's like giving them away the answer and they learn nothing just to get good grades on the test. Evidence 2, 64% of americans says that it is important that kids take the test. To some parent standardized testing is really important. It helps them see how their kids are doing in school and how the teachers are doing as well. As a matter of fact 2014-15 student sat over 401 different types of test that were assign by the district. Most student spend time listening to teachers and have No idea what they are teaching about.

In front of you lays a bubble sheet that will evaluate you and determine whether or not you’ll be given your high school diploma. Your number two pencil swims in your sweating palms as the clock becomes your worst enemy striking its hands closer to your indisputable fate. No matter how hard you worked through the whole school year, the amount of tutoring you took, the sleepless nights of studying and homework; This sitting, this paper will reflect your future in school. If that doesn’t give you anxiety then I don’t know what does. Millions of students across the globe have and are forced to go through these stressful settings in order to be compared and measure their intelligence. The intentions behind Standardized testing are well meant but

Upon sitting in a classroom one day, I noticed a poster hanging on the wall; it was a quote from Michael Johnson, an Olympic gold medalist, that read: (Natural Talent + Opportunity)Hard Work= Success. Underneath the quote, the teacher had wrote “parents” and drawn a line to “Natural Talent,” “Teachers” to “Opportunity,” and “You” to “Hard Work.” As a student, I understood the equation well. My education could not function properly without other variables factoring in, such as my parents and teachers. I also realized that no two equations were going to look alike, so I questioned why standardized testing was used to measure every student’s performance if every student produced success differently. Familiar with Minnesota’s standardized tests,

performance. This study points out how these standardized tests don’t determine if a student will

How would one feel to have a numerical score define their mental capacity and potential in the society in which we live in today? Well when a student is forced to complete a multiple-choice standardized test with a given time-constraint, a thought like so is common to find, along with feelings of uneasiness and worry. Standardized testing should be discontinued, for it fails to measure the student’s true understanding of the curriculum.

In life today society is surrounded by numbers, in particular schools districts depends on data from tests to evaluate how they perform in comparison to other districts. Students who attend public or private schools are subjected to take certain standardized tests to measure their academic achievements throughout their school life. Studies show, that these test do not always help student’s academic growth, in fact some researchers show that standardized test may hurt students in the long run. Due to the fact that retention is a possibility for students who perform low on standardized test, these students may develop test anxiety and disengagement from their academic career. An example in 2015 is that, the overall performance of student failing