Standardized Testing

While a few standardized tests over a student’s school career can be helpful to make sure students are on track and teachers are educating their students, the United States education system has far too many standardized tests. The U.S should reduce the number of tests given to students each year. The current amount of testing stresses students and forces teachers to “teach to the test”. Standardized testing has not and will not improve the American school

To many students standardized testing has become another part of schooling that is dreaded. Standardized testing has been a part of school since the nineteen-thirties; in those days it was used as a way to measure students that had special needs. Since the time that standardized test have been in American schools there has been many programs that have placed an importance on the idea of standardized testing such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Evans 1). Over the years the importance of standardized testing has increased tremendously and so has the stakes, not only for teachers but also students. All states in the United States of America have state test in order to measure how much students learn, and help tell how well the

After the implementation of the “No Child Left Behind Act” high risk standardized testing has become a pressure cooker of corruption in the United States due to often unrealistic expectations, abundant incentives, and harsh punishments placed upon educators and administrators, overall resulting in the essential need for reform. The concept that every student’s academic ability can be assessed by a single universal exam is a misguided notion.

Standardized testing has become a multi-million dollar business that has shown no substantial progress on the public school system across the nation. Our students and schools are being robbed of expressing creativity and critical thinking skills while major corporations are gaining more and more financial stability. Since the implementation of the harsh testing guidelines, it has forced

State-mandated standardized testing has lately become a monster to be feared by students from the beginning of their school career. According to well respected educational author Alfie Kohn, “[…] Most of today’s discourse about education has been reduced to a crude series of monosyllables: Test scores are too low. Make them go up” (Kohn 1). Why all the testing? Some is to meet the federal government requirements, some to meet state requirements, some for the district and some for the school, and still more tests are given simply to help students prepare for the ones already mentioned. So much testing has reduced time for instructors to actually teach. In addition, many of the tests neglect to cover all important material,

Many people in the United States are concerned with the role that standardized testing has on education. Most of them have very strong views on this subject and as it usually happens with large-scale issues these views are very diverse and often opposite. Some claim that standardized testing is the best way to determine student’s skills and qualities because they are equally designed for everyone and not biased. Others, on the other hand, argue the fairness of these tests. They believe that test scores do not represent student’s knowledge. What is certain, in my opinion, is that this subject needs more attention followed by actions that will actually make difference in the education system.

Standardized tests are hurting our educational future. They were implemented for reasons such as evaluating teachers, schools, districts, and so forth, and to determine if students should advance to a higher grade. What standardized tests are actually doing is taking over students’ education. Different levels of the educational system are continuously requiring more tests to assess various objectives, without any evidence that these tests are benefiting students. The effects these tests are having on the education are crippling. Teachers are under a surmountable amount of pressure for their students to achieve high scores, since their careers are in the hands of them. Teachers are reverting to unethical practices to protect their careers. Valuable education time is lost with preparing for and taking of these tests. Students could advance their education further and quicker with less preparation and tests. These tests are not an accurate assessment of students’ abilities since they only assess few subjects. Comparing students’ on only a portion

The use of standardized testing as a form of assessment is highly controversial in the world of education. Standardized test compares students results to a national standard. Some teachers

Standardized Testing is one of the many issues currently plaguing the education community. Testing is a very touchy and controversial topic in the politics of education, particularly in the United States. There are many varying opinions debating on the successes and failures in the process of testing today. The controversies over standardized testing in the United State, and specifically New Jersey, stem from the testing process and the creation of these tests. Some claim that standardized tests are culturally biased, which is a disadvantage to minority students. These tests also are very costly, and affect the education budget. The tests also pose a large time commitment, with preparation for the tests, as well as the time allotted to take the tests themselves. Preparations for the tests can also have issues, with some educators teaching toward the test, to ensure a higher success rate for the students. The grading and processing of these tests also comes into question, because the tests might not be an accurate measure of student achievement. Standardized testing is a very controversial topic because of the extremely high stakes. The successes or failures of students on these tests affect the students and the schools. With the new obsession with high performance rates, standardized testing has become more high stakes.

In conclusion the school counselor plays many roles in testing and assessment of students. They can administer the test, share the results of the test etc. Standardized testing are now of a norm in today's schools. Children start testing as young as four years of age. The NCLB act was put in place so that the school could be accountable for a student passing or failing. Standardized testing is a way for the school to see where the students academic levels are. There are benefits and repercussion for the school depending on how well the students did on the test. School counselors do not like to make a major decision about a student's education based off of one test. The like to look at the students projects, work assignments, and class performance

Standardized tests should not be used to judge the education of a student. The students’ scores on these tests do not provide an accurate index of educational effectiveness (Ascd). A student may know the topic very well, but when it comes to testing over it they may not do so well. A lot of students’ have issues when taking tests and that is not their fault. Educational quality made on the basis of students standardized test performances is apt to be invalid (Ascd). When making the test and grading the test mistakes can be made. Whether it is the test makers marking the wrong answer and not know they did or an error when grading. Students know how much these tests affect their future lives so they do anything, cheat, or take performance drugs,

Today, it can be observed that society has shifted education drastically from the time schools were constituted, to now. Throughout history, schools have gone from private, where only the elite can attend, to public schools where virtually anyone can attend. One of the factors that goes along with education is standardized testing. Frederick J. Kelly, father of the standardized test, once said, “These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned.” Not only has this shift occurred within education itself, but it has occurred within the testing concepts found within standardized testing so much so that the founder of these tests has chosen to give up on it.

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,

2016). Given that a small amount of indication has been offered to back the disagreement that tests effect teaching and what indication has seemed have a habit of being centered on instructors' thoughts of what occurs in the classroom instead of explanations of education and knowledge. Culturally approachable teaching is accessible as a comforting to the difficult of in what way to get students ready from different upbringings for these assessments (ProCon.org. 2016). The place of the instructor as a go-between among procedures and different scholar inhabitants is discovered in light of moral concerns. Further research is required to decide the importance of testing of students. With all the new laws and the many improvements made to testing in schools there is yet a controversy as to whether or not standardized testing measure educational excellence. Some people feel that standardize testing shouldn’t be the only thing used to determine how clever a person is, while others feel that it should be used for that purpose. Standardized testing should not have so much focus placed upon it that it stress a person

Multiple problems with standardized testing have emerged that relate to the students and teachers; however, problems have also appeared with this testing that relate to the public. Test results are released for the public eyes to view, allowing them to judge a school on how the scores say it is doing. The problem with this is that it may misinform the public about what or how the school is doing throughout the school year. The grades on these tests vary because of four factors and according to Jouriles they are, “a teacher’s conception of achievement, a teacher’s sense of equity and rigor, a teacher’s skills, and the composition of students.” If these factors are not all in play at once, a student may not succeed on the test, which is not something he/she can control. Once the scores are released and the public sees that the overall grades are low, some may blame the children while others will blame the teachers. The person to blame in this situation is neither, standardized tests put both students and teachers under a tremendous amount of pressure to perform exceptionally well. Moreover, the scores are all averaged together - as to not show how an individual student did on a test - but this is categorizing him/her. The average scores may have been exceptional, but certain students could have not done well and they still do not understand the concepts they were supposed to learn. On the other hand, the average scores may be horrible, but certain students were able to succeed