Homework And Standardized Testing In Schools

Homework: The Benefit It’s approaching midnight, the room is scattered with papers, and the only audible sound is the clicking of your pencil on the paper. You’ve been up for hours trying to finish your homework, which all seems so repetitive. You question how beneficial completing this homework actually is. A routine you all know too well. Homework has been a highly discussed topic for years. Everyone questions the benefits and reward. People should be informed about homework and the effects it

Standardized Testing 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

This is not new information. With standardized testing designed to make-or-break a student, homework, preparing for college, sports, extracurriculars, and spending time with family and friends, it is no wonder an average student’s anxiety is high- even higher than adults. Standardized testing, huge onslaughts of homework, and the pressure of getting into prestigious universities are all factors that induce stress, anxiety, and even depression. Standardized testing has been a part of a school’s culture

Standardized testing is a horrible way to show the learning ability of a student. It takes away all the fun in education, because the teachers have to focus on certain things to teach, and that is what will be on test. Students should be able to go to school and learn about what their future will hold or go more in depth with what they want to do when they graduate high school. Not to mention that standardized testing can be really stressful on students. We do not know what will be on that test,

people of a non-dominant culture may be assumed to be guilty because someone of their non-dominant culture was guilty in the past (Cullinan, 1999). In my education, I have been given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to innocence. In high school, my school library was having a problem with students stealing library books. As I was leaving the library one week, the alarm went off, but the librarian did not bother to check my backpack. Instead, she waived me on and assumed I was innocent because

some view standardized testing as a bad measure of students academic ability, there are some good qualities the tests have to offer. Looking at a student's academic performance prior to testing, can tell a completely different story when standardized testing comes into play. After standardized testing hit an intercity school, author Almagor had conferences with parents, and what one parent had to say was shocking, ““I don’t understand,” her mother told me. “She does all her work in school. She does

State Testing If some people get out of state testing,then everyone else shouldn't take it. First, some students don’t even take state tests. So it isn't fair for the people who do take it. Students spend a week doing state testing, while all the other people get to get out of it, and do something else. Next, if students are gonna take state testing, all students have to do it and not just get out of it. The only people who should get out of state testing are the students who don't speak english

1st Hour Homework in Moderation = Successful Students Homework; the thing that controls most of a teenagers life. Most students have three or more hours of homework per night. It puts a strain on students sleep, social and family life. “Some school districts [like ours] are considering time limits on homework and a few are considering making homework optional” (Toppo). I completely agree. An hour of homework should be the time limit for the amount of homework that students in our school district

students take a standardized test every year between the grades of third grade and twelfth grade. Although these exams are not all the same, they are all used to decide the students’ intelligence based in different areas such as mathematics, science, english, language arts, and history. Many students experience test anxiety, stress, and pressure during the time of these exams. However, many parents and educators still advocate for standardized testing. Therefore, even though standardized tests analyze

Standardized Testing and Achievement On average, graduating high school students will have taken around 112 standardized tests between preschool and their senior year in high school according to a 2015 study by the council of the Great City Schools (Ayers). Students all over the U.S. are dealing with the increasing amount of standardized tests being given to them, and not reaping any of the benefits they claim to offer. Test related stress, misinterpretation of intelligence and decreased classroom