Benefits Of Standardized Testing

Parents oppose the standardized tests because they can cause stress and anxiety to their children. Students disagree with many tests because it can cost them admission to a university, or passing to the next grade. Teachers oppose the tests because it takes too much time. They have to teach their students what is going to be on the test. Also, the schools and teachers lose funding depending on the results.

Would you like to take a test that is unfair, expensive, and unreliable? Chances are you already have. Standardized testing in schools is not only bad for the students, but also bad for our country’s future. Some might think standardized testing is a good thing, because it is the only way to measure all students the same across the country. However, this thought is wrong for many reasons.

Schools all over the nation have introduced standardized testing as a way to evaluate what the students have learned over the course of the school year. Exams can be administered online or on paper, depending on the subject. Test can be taken at different points of the school year; results can be used as a way to determine what areas are weaker than others. Most results are viewed by the school board, administrators, and teachers. In some schools students take one end of the year test with different subjects, other just takes one test. These tests can be graded by groups of people are computers. Standardized testing has become a part of America’s educational system and many don’t see the benefit of the test at all.

Standardized testing has become a controversial topic in recent years, parents, students, teachers, principals and almost anyone who has a relationship with education is affected by this topic. People are either for or against standardized testing, some believe it is the only fair way to compare students others believe that the tests are too greatly stressed in school and are a nuisance to education. Standardized tests are stressed greatly, students learn testing material all year not focusing on anything else deemed unimportant by the test makers. Every student has the same amount of time and question on tests; they also are tested on the same subjects which the test makers believe are most important for children to learn. Standardized tests are used for many things such as ranking students on a national basis and government funding for schools.

"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guaruntee you that." said Michelle Obama, according to brainyquotes.com. Standardized testing is everywhere. Children as young as eight years old take these tests in which all test takers are given the same test no matter what their specific needs are. At some schools, these tests determine whether you move on to the next grade and even if you graduate. However, is this really fair? While some students perform exceptionally, others do not. I think students should not be required to pass a test at the end of the year to move on to the next grade or to graduate because not all students test well. These tests can also add additional stress and anxiety to a student's life, and they are unfair to non English speakers and students with disabilities.

Even though there are many downsides to standardized testing there are still viable reasons why they are still being used today. One of the main reasons includes the easy and quick access of testing students. Standardized testing allows schools to quickly access a large amount of students at one time. This is also one of the cheapest ways to tests such a large crowd due to machinery that grades which results in low tests costs for students. These tests also help by setting a national curriculum for all high school teachers to teach in schools. “It provides guidelines for curriculum. Standardized tests give teachers a structure of what needs to be taught. This helps keep classroom material consistent across the country” (“Pros and Cons of

Standardized testing is harmful because it takes up a lot of time, it stresses kids out, and some people just aren’t test takers. My first reason is that it takes up to much time. We are using 2.3 percent of every class taking standardized testing, So if you take 2.3 percent of all our classes everyday for a

Standardized testing has been a major debate for over sixteen years and is still going on in some districts all over the United States. The debate is over who agrees with having standard tests in their schools and who doesn’t, although it’s mostly parents and guardians rather than students who are debating this. There are many pro’s and con’s to having standard tests in schools such as the student is too stressed to be motivated to do their work properly or perhaps it could be because the student suffers from depression whereas on the other hand, teachers are being able to tell where a student is truly at in the course and can help them get back on track and understand what it is that they are learning.

The tests show what the student is learning and possibly what the student is still having trouble with (Parent Today). That could be a positive benefit to help the teachers teach the student in a more adequate and skillful way, but there is usually no feedback to the teachers about the students’ test results. The tests are usually not returned or if they are, they are not given the correct answers to any missed questions. That makes it nearly impossible to teach the material that is being misunderstood or is hard to grasp. It also does not help with teaching the process of coming up with a reason or response to a situation and/or question. Mark Thane, Missoula County Public Schools Superintendent, furthers that point in explaining how schools are not given tests results until “after students leave for the summer,” which makes it “too late to adjust classroom strategies” (Fraser). It is no good to know what the students are having trouble with if there is no feedback or the results come out too late in order to reteach misunderstood topics or questions. While there are some who believe that standardized testing is useful and necessary to understand what the students are learning, there is evidence that contradicts their

Standardized Testing has many cons compared to pros. The biggest con of all is the stress it puts on students and teachers alike. The stress it puts on teachers is that sometimes teacher’s teach according to the test because they want to

Did you know that “Texas spends about 90 million dollars a year’’ (Scott Friedman 1) on a standardized test. 90 million dollars a year is an absurd amount of money to spend on a test when we could be using that money for something more beneficial to the state of Texas. That is just one reason standardized testing is not necessary in the state of Texas.

Based upon the sources I have cited, standardized testing can be biased or unfair to students, tests are created and often are not written by people with no to little teaching experiences, teachers are forced to teach test material, thus eliminating a student's creativity, and students are given over the requirements of testing.

A very current and ongoing important issue happening within the education system is standardized testing. A standardized test is any examination that's administered and scored in a calculated, standard manner. There are two major kinds of standardized tests: aptitude tests and achievement tests. Standardized aptitude tests predict how well students might perform in some subsequent educational setting. The most common examples are the SAT’s and the ACT’s. The SAT and the ACT attempt to estimate how well high school students will perform in college. But standardized test scores are what citizens and school board members rely on when they evaluate a school's effectiveness. Nationally, five such tests are in use: California Achievement Tests,

Testing is a common way to measure a student’s learning, where their strengths are and where they may need more help. Standardized testing in the United States has increased in the past decade becoming a normal part of schooling therefore students with test anxiety have increased. No Child Left Behind signed by President George Bush in 2001 states that it is mandatory for 3rd through 8th graders to take annual reading and math tests. The federal legislature believed that standardized testing would improve a student's motivation and raise achievement when they passed the No Child Left Behind Law. Assuming that with the rewards and repercussions that come wit the test will be motivate the students to do well and study.

Do you think schools spend to much time on testing? I think schools don’t spend a lot of time on testing. How ever other people argue with my claim. I think Standardized testing is helpful because it helps teacher know when to move to the next section to learn, It helps kids work harder to get better grades, and it also takes up little class time.