Standardized Testing Skyrocket

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

We shouldn’t have to take standardized tests because they don’t provide any feedback on how to perform better. The tests treat everyone who takes them feel identical, they don’t make you feel different. These tests make create a huge amount of stress on teachers and students. Most test takers can handle certain levels of stress but others can’t handle any amount. There should be other options that schools and colleges could use or get rid of the tests all

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

“A national 2007 study by the Center on Education Policy reported that since 2001, 44% of school districts had reduced the time spent on science, social studies and the arts by an average of 145 minutes per week in order to focus on reading and math. A 2007 survey of 1,250 civics, government, and social studies teachers showed that 75% of those teaching current events less often cited standardized tests as the reason.” (Standardized Tests Pros and Cons) Material that will not be on the test is not being taught which means that students are being limited to what they learned based on the test. This is causing teachers to begin teaching to the test. The term “teach to the test” means that students are not gaining any knowledge but what they will be tested on. In school, students have the right to be taught more than what will just be on the test. School is about growing and learning about the world around, and to help generations to come. Students are just being taught for a test, which makes the tests not a complete accurate measure of what a student can do

First, there’s to much time spent on testing. President Obama wanted to limit the Standardized test to 2 percent of class time instead of 2.3 percent. Testing is way more than filling in the right bubble. Between PreK-12 they do about 112 exams. There is way too much time spent on testing.

This essay will explain that Standardized Tests needs to be changed. Students take 112 tests from preK to 12th. My hook is trying to say that students take to much tests from the start of our school years to the end of our school years. Standardized tests needs to be changed because. This essay explained that standardized tests needs to be changed because it is to 1.stressful, 2.standardized tests need to be modified, and tests are 3.low quality.

For instance, Monday and Tuesday will be allocated to 7th graders for reading and writing portions of the test while Wednesday and Thursday is assigned to 8th graders taking the same subjects, those days do not include math, or science benchmark tests. Also, on these days, school officials strive to maintain a quiet place with minimal interruptions for testing students. This means that students who are not testing take different routes to their classes, once they are in class, normal instruction does not take place, rather the focus is on sustaining a quiet place so as not to disturb students who are testing in other areas of the school. Although this may not seem like a serious loss of time, it is important to keep in mind that this routine can take up to a two-week timespan. That is a sizable gap of time without formal instruction which could prove to further place a strain on already struggling

My first piece of evidence is the government is suggesting shorter tests. Kids spend on average 20-25 hours taking standardized tests. We could spend more time learning other things rather than teaching to the test. 2.3% of class time is spent on testing.

Just about every student dreads that time of the year when educators urge students to study their year long or semester notes for a big test coming up. “Eat breakfast. Be on time. Make sure you have number two pencils that are sharpened. Bring a calculator if you need to. Sleep well. Do not forget to check back over your answers. If you do not know the answer, skip the question and come back to it.” Those are just a few of the long, dreadful rehearsed list of “test taking skills” teachers urge their students to follow for standardized testing. Standardized testing is a method used by states and colleges to prove a student’s mastery in various school subjects.Tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Testing (ACT) are a burden on students. Students, who have

I believe that standardized testing is becoming a problem that is scoring students within a couple of hours and basing their education levels off of one standardized test. But not only is it scoring students its evaluating teachers. I believe that there should be alternatives for standardized

My first piece of evidence that we don't need any new tests is that testing causes stress. Testing already causes stress and if we get more then every one will be more stressed. And no one likes being stressed. This is the reasons that testing causes stress.

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.

Standardized testing is something that is now, commonplace, in the United States. It however, is not the best thing for students and education. It should be eliminated because it hasn't improved student scores, its minimizing the range of subjects we learn, and finally it is killing creativity in and out of school.

Standardized tests do not asses skills when their questions are generalized for an entire population. Most of the time, the tests are not in conjunction with classroom skills and behavior. These tests asses for general knowledge and understanding of students rather that their actual abilities. Since the questions are general in nature, it becomes very difficult for teachers to know how to improve the students understanding of a particular subject based on just general information. This leads to teachers “teaching to test” rather than educating students in a proper way based on the real needs of the classroom. Another reason these tests do more bad than good is the fact that teachers actually have a test booklet instructing them on what to do if a student vomits during a test. Students study so hard for these tests and simply cannot handle the pressure. So in the end, their final scores reflect not their abilities, but the influences of their surrounding factors instead.

Standardized tests do not always give reliable feedback to the school, student or teacher. For example, a student who has test anxiety may not perform well on a high stakes test even though he or she knows the information. Some students just do not test