Standardized Testing In Schools

A never-ending issue has loomed over the head of our nation-- education. According to the Institute of Education Sciences, 63.7% of American students are below proficient in reading and 65.7% in math. In order to improve educational standards and increase student achievement, Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act (also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in 2002. Designed to increase the role of the federal government in education, it holds schools accountable based on how students perform on standardized tests. Statistics show that the average student completes about 110-115 mandatory, standardized tests between pre-kindergarten and end of twelfth grade (an average of eight tests per year). Standardized testing utilizes

These tests have been faulty and inadequate for use of assessment when given electronically. Also, the stress put on students to perform well overworks their brain, giving them poorer scores than hoped for. Both students and teachers have been so worried by the scores that they have cheated to get the scores they truly hope for, leading to inaccurate results for the entire school system. Nonetheless, schools are still using these results to define their students’ intelligence and refine their schedules for upcoming years. These assessments are so important to the state’s performance rate of students, yet they are not proven to provide accurate information of the population’s true aptitude. If the government continues to administer such defective evaluations to the people we will lose the true value of an education across the nation, and the stress levels of students and teachers will continue to rise at an inordinate

Microaggressions can be any commonplace comments that are intended or not, to offend another person. However, one might think individuals would be aware if they inherently said something offensive. Microaggressions are even apparent in standardized testing and academia as test writers and teachers can unintentionally degrade students with a seemingly innocent statement. Standardized tests are allegedly supposed to test student’s knowledge of what they have learned or previously known. The tests also reflect the academic progress of the school to determine the quality of education that the school provides. Standardized tests seem to be an unbiased way of determining skill, but the tests do not take into account student’s home lives, as well

In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was passed to improve the education system. Standardized testing is one of the results of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. States are required by law to test students every year from 3rd grade to 8th grade and once from 10th grade to 12th grade in at least reading and math. Here in Georgia, the test is the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). Standardized testing is both good and bad for a student, the school, and the teachers. With all of its’ pros and cons, standardized testing should remain an important aspect of our school system.

As a nation, I believe that the system and society is failing to give children a fundamentals for success in our public school system. Fixated on standardized testing as the measurement of a child’s quality of learning has led to our newest high school graduates lacking the basic skills to create a resume, the ability to think critically or how to manage a checkbook. I believe that state and federal funding should be accessible to schools allowing teachers to be paid their worth. This in part will address the poor quality of education that has been identified in poverty stricken and low income communities. I believe that investments should be made in teachers training and their bosses. It should be mandatory and regulated at a national level, this will level out the playing ground for many

Standardized testing is a test that involves all students in the same age group or grade level to take the same test with the same question. One of the purposes of standardized testing is that it uses a numerical component in test scoring reinsure that all students can be measure on the same scale. Grade point average is the only other way you can compare students but grade point average is not reliable because students have different teachers for different subjects for different years. Standardized testing help provide a reliable numerical indicator. Standardized testing comes in many shapes and forms, one of the most common forms of standardized testing is multiple choices but it can also include short answer, true and false, essay questions and a mixture of all questions types. Standardized testing is mostly done on paper using a pencil but know with some test they are starting to compose computerized standardized test. Educators consider standardized testing to be an important part of student testing because when it comes to grading the test it takes away from teachers being bias and potential favoritism.

Junior year is often said to be the hardest year of high school. Homework gets harder, classes start to pile on, there’s more access to clubs and other extracurriculars. However, these things combined are not the reason that it is typically called the hardest. It is the stress and preparation that comes with taking a standardized test that year. Standardized tests are assessments of several specific skills of high school students, which will later be used in college. The two most common standardized tests in the U.S. are the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT). The standardized part means that when the general population takes this test, the score distribution should be a normal bell-shaped distribution with

Is education really as important as people make it to be? Standardized tests have been a problem to our education system and to help solve this issue, they should not be permitted. The state use standardized tests as a way to improve students and make a point. Standardized testing should not be permitted in High School because it is not helpful, causes anxiety and is a waste of the state’s money.

Standardized tests within today’s American Education have become a policy, creating vast and long tests to comprehend each student's knowledge over their years of education within American society. While there are positive and negative effects of using these standardized tests to assess students’ needed fundamentals of education in terms of standards, the validity of these tests always come into question, considering that so many high school graduates are applying for college. This calls into question whether we should keep using these tests, or abandon them all together. It makes one beg the question: To what extent are the criterion of standardized tests valid in predicting collegiate educational success? Due to the inefficiencies of standardized

Over the many years, education in the United States has been a source of meaningful issues; including the fact of students learning adequately and mastering specific subjects and more importantly, the wonder if America is assembled for a better and bright future since school had been financed by the government. Since 2001, debating over the standardized tests in American education due to President Bush’s introduction of the No Child Left Behind Act has been a significant issue in the American education since the federal government provides money for educational purposes based on test scores and if educational institutions fail to meet the requirements of improvement. Consequently, schools will not be reinforced by funding; in other words, there is a link between the financial aid and educational goals. What I hope to prove to the audience is that funding should not be established

Should high school students be forced to take Standardized test before awarded their high school diploma. In my opinion students should not be tested from a Standardized test that will affect their in negative way. I feel very strongly about this subject and don't believe the Standardized test should even be aloud. The test are privately own and are all profit for private companies, which is morally wrong in my opinion. People should be given their diploma solely on their grades and progression through schooling. There's a lot of mental tare on students who overstudy and still get a bad/ low score on the test especially since the test cost a good amount of money and then if you have to take them over multiple times it affects you mentally

Most school districts that have a testing program use tests that can be scored by a computer.

Absolutely there are things that I don’t believe are good decisions when working with young adults. Should as the test the school district give the students, for example my daughter’s teacher was out of school for three month. Just this last week her and her peers had to take the standardized test, they didn’t understand many parts of the math section. It went as far as the children went home to their parents, there was one parent that told the principal we didn’t think it was fair that the students weren’t prepared for this test, yet it was going to have a large impact on their test scores and cums. One of the best example of how important these tests are, “Standardized tests have become the main instrument for determining children’s worth

Ever since standardized testing started being used as a way to evaluate the intelligence of students and the teachers’ ability to educate, the standard of actual education has been diminished immensely. Standardized testing is used in most public and private schools to analyze students’ knowledge. It has affected the way in which students learn and has corrupted the methods teachers use to educate. In some cases, English-Learning and disabled students face discrimination from teachers since teachers have more responsibility to have a high number of passing students. Some countries around the world don’t use standardized tests to rank their students or schools and yet they have been successful. Standardized tests are not efficient on making students learn, they should not be used to evaluate students’ knowledge.

Children are frequently taught to be themselves because we are all different. People do not look, talk, or even think the same as one another. To insure children are receiving the best education possible, teachers must consider these differences and teach for various learning styles. One child may process information more efficiently when the teacher uses visuals such as pictures, while another student may learn better by listening to his or her teacher speak. To confirm students are learning and being taught the required information that is provided by the state, students in the United States take part in standardized testing: “A standardized achievement test is designed to provide norm-referenced interpretations of student achievement in