Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing A Waste Of Time

The standardized tests not only affect the students, but everyone else that is involved. It affects students by causing them stress and if they are unprivileged they do not get the tutoring and help that the privileged ones do (Reddell). Privileged children can get tutors to help teach them more about a topic. The unprivileged kids can get free tutoring at school but some are too embarrassed or scared to go ask for help. A kid should not be embarrassed about asking for help on a subject they are having troubles in they should be able to go to any teacher and not have other students around them making fun just because they are getting help because they do not know something. These tests have caused so much stress on not just students but also the teachers (Reddell). Students get more stressed over these tests than teachers do. They know that they need to try their best and it puts a ton of weight on them. Even though they can retake the test that does not mean a senior can. If a senior is to take these tests and fail then they have to come back either for summer school or back for a whole other year. It is not fair to a senior if they fail the test and have to come the next year or even during the summer just because he did not pass. A test should not be the reason he does not get to go to college that year and has to

Texas takes the STAAR, Alabama the ARMT, and Hawaii the HSA. Each state in the U.S. has a standardized test required of every student. From the ACT and SAT to the STAAR tests, standardized testing has become common practice for almost every student. The earliest records of standardized testing are when in China, anyone wanting to get a job in government had to fill out their knowledge of Confucian philosophy and poetry in examination. As more and more kids began to go to school during the Industrial Revolution, standardized testing spread as a way to quickly and easily test a large number of students. But not everyone agrees with the tests, stating that they are unreliable, and that the stakes are too high. Standardized tests cause immense amount of stress for not only students, but teachers as well. And the tests might not even be effective, causing more anxiety than it's worth.

Since Middle School, I was not opposed to standardized testing. I thought of it as a way of testing us of what we have learned. Although, after reading some articles about standardized testing I am re-thinking the pros and cons. From personal experience, I thought of it as a challenge to pass them. But now that reminisce about it, I noticed some of the cons of standardized testing. I remember having a week or two dedicated for testing, and in case of students failing they had to take time to redo it. It would take a while for all the students to finish their tests. And after remembering how it was back in those times I was more on the opposed side.

Each year high school students from around the country take the SAT or ACT. The ACT and SAT are both standardized test used by colleges to determine the knowledge of a student and predict what their performance will be in their first year of college. An immense amount of pressure is put on student to receive certain scores in order to obtain scholarships and admission into college. Even just one point on a student’s score can determine if they will be accepted into their dream college. However, the results from standardized tests, such as the ACT and SAT, are often inaccurate. Because of this one’s knowledge and academic ability are misrepresented, and they are denied certain opportunities. Standardized tests such as the ACT and the SAT

One of the biggest topics in the educational world is standardized tests. All fifty states have their own standards following the common core curriculum. There are many positives and negatives that go with the standardized tests. A standardized test is any type of “examination that's administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner” (Popham, 1999). These standardized tests are either aptitude tests or achievement tests. Schools use achievement tests to compare students.

Growing up in Chesapeake every student is forced to take a standardized test at the end of every class they take. Standardized testing has been a part of the educational system for so long that everyone is just accustomed to taking these tests or giving them out. Standardized testing does not just effect the students but it also effects the teachers. Chesapeake School Board should get rid of standardized testing in all grade levels because of different learning style, it limits the teachers to what they can teach and poor test scores.

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

As the school year comes to an end, kids start worrying about their end of course test. These standardized tests cause issues with not only the teachers and school, but with the student as an individual. Standardized test should definitely be eliminated because it does not benefit students, causes unnecessary stress, and teachers no longer passionately teach students, instead they follow the curriculum they are forced to instruct.

Schools and the state should not make students take standardized tests. First of all, for most of the test, the students have not learned the material. Also, it only examines how someone does that one day and not of the whole year. Lastly, some of these tests rate the school and teacher’s performance, and not actually seeing what the students are learning in class.

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

At the end of every school year comes testing season, these standardized tests have caused a great debate of whether or not they should be removed. For about 9 months students are graded by many different techniques and test and they earn those quarterly grades, then they take the test and are in fear of failing the class. The article Examining the Pros and Cons of standardized Testing by Derrick Meador he talks about the benefits of these test, he also adds the cons of them towards the end of his writing. I disagree with his writing because tests such as sats, acts, the eoc, and for Florida the Fsa, are test based on what you should know but you have already proved that with your grades. I believe these test are hurting students who are bad test takers, it's stressful for both students and the teachers, and the test bring on too much at one time.

Imagine being slouched over a test booklet thinking,”A,B,C or D, which one is it?” Who wants to go through that? Standardized tests are not necessary for student to take. They stress out some people, testing takes to long to complete, and the results take too long to return.

I have mixed feelings on standardized testing because of the contraversity that goes on about it. What I do know is it stresses out the children who have to take these test. It stresses out the teachers who have to give this test as well. Teachers can lose their jobs if the children are not scoring high enough on these tests. I think that is unfair because a teacher cannot make a child pass a test it is their own knowledge that can do that. Some children are not good test takers and this causes them to score a little poorly. My personal children have been so nervous about these tests because the teachers have said you have to pass or fail this grade. It made them sick to their stomachs and not want to go to school, and my children love school.

Of all the students worldwide, only the top 25% who got an SAT score of 1590 are granted eligibility to most Ivy League Schools, those scoring 1470 on the SAT are at the bottom 25%. During standardized testing, it is considered barbarous when students don’t receive the necessary formulas, equations, and concepts, that the test is limited to. The expectations of getting a satisfactory score are inevitable, but students tend to obtain much stress when they are obliged to prepare ahead of time. Thus, they perform dreadfully and are not granted college admissions to a school of their choosing, causing despair in many students. Standardized testing is varied by how responsible each student is when they take the test, whether they were prepared or not, managing time, studying, and preparation books are all advantages that are sternly acknowledged. The primary reason standardized test exists is to analyze student’s prior knowledge and enthusiasm, without it, there’ll be devastating consequences. Being responsible is one that most fail at, falling into the category predictable low test scores.

Noddings describes the main dilemma of standardized testing from a teacher’s point of view, “Today, even elementary teachers complain that the pressure to produce high test scores inhibits the work they regard as central to their mission: the development of caring and competent people” (Barrier-Ferreira). Because the risks have reached disproportionate levels, educators are often forced to forget all things that do not relate to the standardized tests and “consequently lose sight of what is important: the whole child, who is not simply composed of intellect but is emotional and spiritual as well” (Barrier-Ferreira).