Essay Against Standardized Testing

We shouldn’t have to take standardized tests because they don’t provide any feedback on how to perform better. The tests treat everyone who takes them feel identical, they don’t make you feel different. These tests make create a huge amount of stress on teachers and students. Most test takers can handle certain levels of stress but others can’t handle any amount. There should be other options that schools and colleges could use or get rid of the tests all

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Don’t all students hate standardized tests. They waste lots of time and don’t influence your grade so then what’s the point of them. I think that students shouldn’t take standardized tests. First of all students take the test in May and don’t get the results until September so the test doesn’t do much. Lots of teachers also only teach to the test meaning they only prepare them to pass the test. Students might know the content but because of test anxiety they might not be able to show it on the test.

All of these test are wearing the students down they are not learning from taking a test there is just to much time spent on testing.With less test we as kids will learn more about the subject they struggle with, and those are just some of the reasons why we need to get rid of some test. If we can reduce the number of test we will still learn but easier.It will be way more simple and we will still be learning the same amount maybe even more. It cant really hurt to try can it?

Do you ever feel like test never have what you actually learned? Some people support standardized test and some people are against it. I believe that tests do not help the students because testing is expensive, the teachers need to spend more time on what kids struggle with, and should send less time preparing and learn what we need to learn.

First, the tests are abusive of teacher and student time. “You prepare for the test to prepare for the test to prepare for the test,” said Robert Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. (Lyndsey Layton of The Washington Post*) Too much tests It damages the classroom experience and makes classes boring. The tests

According to a Dallas TV station investigation, “the cost to develop and administer these tests has been about $60 million-$90 million a year”. Furthermore, according to Victoria Advocate, Texas, alone, has spent $1.5 billion in the past two decades on the testing machine. This brings up the question, why is so much spent on testing? If so much money is being spent on it, why are students and teachers not seeing the supposed benefits?

Students are stressed. But, what is the goal of these tests? Are we trying to make students compete with one another to see who gets the higher score? Or are we preparing them for life outside of school? Maybe at one time these tests were used to measure how well the future leaders of our countries were learning, but now it is no longer like that. These tests seem to show no post-school value except to find the most successful kids and give them scholarships to college. Going along with this, everyone, depending on their grade, is required to take the same exact test. Despite their different ways of thinking, students are grouped together and the ones who are different are “wrong” simply because they were unable to learn it due to the way they were taught. Holding every single student to the same standards avoids the fact that everyone has a different mindset and each person may excel in different subjects. This poses a question: when will the system change? Students are held to such enormous pressure that when they meet the standards, they are convinced they’re stupid, and I struggle with this, too. However, it would be easier if all of the intimidation encountered when we are testing would just be withdrawn and students can be able to take a test, try their best, and if they don’t succeed, they can continue to work hard because, after all, a test shouldn’t determine how

For starters,students take too many. The average student between grades 4k through 12th takes up to 112 tests. Students take up to 25 hours of tests not including quarterly exams. Although some people say that students don’t take enough, President Obama says,”Standardized tests make education boring and don’t adequately measure performance.” During all the time that students are using to take this ridiculous amount

Many high school students do not even take these tests seriously because many of them are at the same intellectual level as adults and realize that the tests are flawed. Still, they might not consider that these flawed tests might lessen their chances of getting into college. Certainly, one could envision a system of standardized tests where learning is at the center.

testing should not be used to determine the abilities of a student. Schools all over the world are spending more time studying for the test than actually learning. Not to mention that even students are stressing out because they want to perform well.

Teachers currently teach the class around testing in addition to their own teaching duties. Spending more time on the student’s success in testing has decreased the time spent for instruction in the classroom. A 2001 national survey asked teachers about the effects of high-stakes testing on non-tested subjects and other areas. The information they got back stated that roughly 80% of the teachers reported they had increased the time spent on tested subjects and nearly 50% stated they had decreased time on non-tested subjects such as foreign languages, fine arts, etc.

If one thing should change in school districts all around the United State it should be the horrid semester exams every student and teacher dread. An English teacher in Corvallis High School named Mr. McConnaha said, “taking a test is testing how well someone can take a test.” That sentence is true in every aspect. Caring students study for hours the night before tests, go into class, take the test, leave class and forget everything they just tested on.

Imagine yourself back in your freshman year of highschool. It is early October and field hockey is going great. Classes are not too bad either, and reports are right around the corner. On Monday your teacher pulls you aside and lets you know that if you do not get at least an eighty on this next test you will not do well in the class. Not only do you have other work due for school, but you have a job, field hockey and only two days left to study and really understand the material. This is currently the issue with test, teachers are using them as end point grades. This means they use them to see how much someone knows. Hence, using tests as final scoring of what they have learned. In reality test should be used to help guide teaching. As a teacher we should realize that test grades are affected by a lot of outside sources and are not always reliable. Test should be used to help guide the way teachers help their students learn, not used to measure what a student already knows.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of students across the nation are required to take many standardized tests. Which are used to determine student’s achievement, progress and growth. These tests supposedly say the outcome of how much knowledge a student has or has not learned. The stakes are high all because of a test score. Standardized tests may determine a pass or fail status for grade levels through K-12 or admission into colleges if you are taking an ACT or SAT standardized test. It is unfair and a very unreliable method to use to measure the performance of students. Standardized testing methods creates more harm than good and should be revised because many students, teachers, and schools suffer from this annually.