Ineffectiveness Of Standardized Testing In The United States

Standardized testing has been around since the mid 1800’s. Numbers went up when President George W. Bush enforced the No Child Left Behind Act and stated that testing will be annually in all 50 states. That is when education became more about being able to pass the test then actually trying to learn the subject and truly understand. Ever since students have always dealt with trying to get a certain score on test so they can know what schools are willing to accept them. That score just does not apply to the student it also involves the educators and the school as well. If schools do not achieve a certain goal they have budget cuts and cut teachers. Are test scores the determining factor of how much money a school will receive for that year? Is that fair to the students who want to get a great education and want to thrive to try to go law school or medical school?

Standardized test cause reduced content knowledge. In other words, teach the test criteria and nothing more. The scores that everyone is trying to get only give a person a small amount of the knowledge that, without the test, they would obtain. Theses scores are drilled so hard into a student’s head that they do not know any other thing to do than to pass that test. Barber states in his article that there were three groups of people, elected officials from the school board, the press, and the public. He said that “All three groups were clamoring for something simple and repeatable to use to judge how well their schools were doing.” He goes on to say that they thought standardized testing was just that. They wanted to compare other schools to their school, that it gives them those bragging rights. This will eventually create a ripple effect, and come back on the schools in harmful ways.

Standardized testing is a test that are taken by students all over the United States. Standardized tests have the same questions that are given with the same instructions, and with the same scoring method. Standardized testing has impacted teachers, students, and parents. For teachers, it has an impact on their salaries and for students it has an impact on their future. Standardized testing is unfair and needs to be terminated.

Standardized testing allows for something schools can compare students’ knowledge with. Although this may be true, testing is actually harmful. Standardized tests are an unfair way to be accessed because they do not accurately represent a student’s abilities. Many people don’t perform well on tests; they are smart, and understand the subject, but they don’t show it on the test. It is easy to forget something on a test, even if you studied for a while and normally understand the topic. Many students experience nerves or anxiety when taking a test. Feeling nervous has been proven to affect a student's performance for the worst. Students panic if they run into a question they aren’t sure of the answer to which decreases their score even more. 50% to 80% of test scores were fluctuated and had nothing to do with the actual growth in learning of a student. This shows that tests are an unfair analyzation because the scores are not accurate.

Next these tests take away learning time.We spend about 20-25 hours just taking standardized tests not including the tests they need to take in regular class time.What this means is that we are spending more time learning what’s on the tests and what is actually need to know.We also are spending too much time “teaching to the test,” and not enough time learning.Most of these tests take away learning time that is actually needed to know in real life.The tests take away learning time and that is causing

Standardized tests have become a recent controversial topic across the nation. Americans strive for a great education system, but fail to realize that testing is the main issue. It is believed that they are a simple way to evaluate students from all different areas. However, there are countless faults that cannot truly show students’ ability. Standardized tests in the United States do not accurately measure intelligence and should be modified to prevent issues in academics.

There has been a lot of talk about standards for schools. Politicians have made this issue a campaign debate. Now everyone has jumped on the “bandwagon” and wants accountability of students’ education (Shafer, 2002). When there is a problem in the education system, teachers are the first to be blamed. They are left with the responsibility of proving they are teaching what needs to be taught. States as well as the federal government use standardized testing to assess learning. They want someone to be held responsible for students’ learning. The problem lies when the teacher and student suffer from the results of standardized testing. “The pressure on educators and

According to Linn, “Americans have had a love-hate relationship with educational testing”, and the controversies on the use of standardized tests will probably continue long after the twenty-first century (29). How can people see the ‘love’ in this use of testing that has negative long-term effects on students? Why should the controversies live on beyond this modern century? Standardized testing is negatively affecting the quality of education given to the students; most likely caused by teachers teaching more to the favor of the test, and youth feeling marginalized by the unequal education opportunities given and standardization.

Standardized testing is a large part of the education system today. Most schools take at least one every year. The tests were put in place with good intentions, but overall failed as a way of raising standards. Standardized tests should be removed from our schools because they have a negative effect on most school environments, effects both students and teachers emotionally, has yet to be proven to increase overall educational performance, have been proven to be biased in multiple studies, limit the creative ability that is used in the classroom setting, is not an accurate measure of a student’s intellect, it takes up valuable class time and results in overall counterproductivity.

The American public education system uses these tests for a bench mark to know how students are doing in different states and what areas they need to improve on like math or science. Kira Zalan a editor for U.S. news weekly defines standardized test as “STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE commonly used to measure intelligence and to assign labels indicative of a student's future prospects”. These tested shouldn’t be used to label if someone is smart or not. Standardized testing is a bad idea because its not helping the students improve on the subjects they to improvement on all that is happening is teachers are teaching for the standardized test. Most teachers are focusing on teaching the students on how to past the test not actually learning the subject they need to learn. A lot of great teachers start teaching for the test because they are fearful for their job because the standardized test are also used to determine how affective teachers are and if they are able to teach students the

Standardized tests immensely aid teachers and schools because they “provide a lot of useful information at low cost, and consume little class time.” (Is the Use). Instead of investing a lot of money and time on observing each student, to make assumptions that may not be accurate, these educational tests, especially those on an elementary school level, can flag students who may need additional attention. Students who may need to be held back a year, those with reading impediments, gifted children, and much more. These flags do not make these decisions, but rather indicate to educators that these children exhibit these and need to be examined further in case they may need things like an individualized education program or a special class. A large part of the debate against standardized testing is that some believe these tests are not fair to students with emotional, psychological, or physical disabilities and that they are at a disadvantage. However, this is simply not true in today’s time. Almost every test, including the SAT, accommodates for these disabilities appropriately (Students). This may have been true in the past, but with things like the Americans with Disabilities Act and increased awareness, it is just that: a thing of the

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, and we have a whole semester to get ready for them.

Standardized Testing is a regulation of rigorous dialogue and debate. Both sides of this subject impose arguments based upon moral and financial justifications, and span from the local to national level of legislation. The policy of standardized testing as a means to identify schools who are lacking in successful educational processes neither harm school districts through unequal distribution of power, nor negatively affect students’ learning; rather, it benefits students, faculty, and districts by encouraging student success and aiding in improvements for school curriculums.

Standardized testing is the bane of the United State’s educational system. It causes fear and stress in students and can cause confusion and teaching problems for teachers.It bankrups schools fires teachers and ruins kid lives.A standardized test is any form of test that (1) requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that (2) is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual (Standardized Test Definition) To understand why over testing is harmful to students you must know the consequences of standardized testing. First you must know about the history of the standardized education movement and what is did to society.The losses of learning time,The losses of love and creativity of learning,The creation of a sterile/changes environment of a school day,week,or even month, and the physical and emotional effect on student and teachers.

Standardized tests are used to mark as a major judgment about students. For example, grade elevation or high school qualification and also higher education assessment. Several numbers of students through America have to take repeat courses because of the method standardized tests make students pass or fail. According to ROSE, MIKE , “Public education, a vast, ambitious, loosely coupled system of schools, is one of our country 's defining institutions. It is also flawed, in some respects deeply so. Unequal funding, fractious school politics, bureaucratic inertia, uneven curricula, uninspired pedagogy, and the social ills that seep into the classroom all limit the potential of our schools. The critics are right to be worried”. It is wrong to let just a particular test to choose whether a whole semester’s effort will be satisfied with the credits. There is some standardized testing system for example SAT, which is not fair to students who might come from a deprived educational family. It is disadvantage of Educational Framework if Students have test taking anxiety. Standardized tests provide false pretenses of impartiality. Though the goal of standardized testing system is only scoring and that is through by machine.