Standardized Testing Unfair

Great controversy has arisen over standardized testing in recent years. The issue is whether or not schools should continue to administer standardized tests. These tests are dangerous to school systems and should be abolished as they are ineffective, punish teachers and students unfairly, and there are better alternatives.

Standardized testing is an unfair way to judge how these students are making progress. Simply, some students do not test as well as other students do. There could be a very smart student that simply can not do well on test for whatever the reason may be, but the sad thing is we allow this to continue happening even when its totally unfair. Most of the time, students that come from a low-income family are treated the most unfairly. They attended poorly-funded schools with large class sizes, too many teachers without subject area certification, and inadequate books, laboratories and so on. States don’t put these schools into consideration that they don’t have the best education system. Instead, they continue to take it out on the students and deny them diplomas because of them not being about to afford a highly-funded school.

This causes an endless cycle of stress between studying for one test, waiting for scores, and then studying for the next test. Not only are these hard working students stressed because of standardized testing, but their teachers are too. These teachers spend valuable class time drilling the basic fundamentals involved with standardized testing into their students, because they are necessary for success on standardized tests. However, the fundamentals can only help so much on these tests, and the rest of the work is up to the student. Teachers are often then evaluated based on their students’ performances, causing them to be stressed.

Stress, that is what all students go through when they have to take the Standardized Test. Kids stress out over these big Test called the Standardized Test because they determine students future class. It can go all the way up to the High School where students would take the SAT that would determine one’s future. Also the kind of job people would get in the future. Kids are getting tired of the standardized test. People should take action and giving no kids standardized test.

Standardized tests are discriminatory because they don’t take cultural backgrounds, experiences, or personal lives into account, which leaves students at a disadvantage, which is why standardized tests are more damaging than beneficial to students. According to www.commondreams.org, in New York City, ELL students make up 14.4% of the student body population, and are expected to take a standardized exam between 7 and 8 times before passing. Only about 39.1% of these students end up graduating from school because the test doesn’t take their backgrounds into account. They haven’t fully learned the language, or properly know the full american schooling system yet. When students are put at this kind of disadvantage, this throws them a curveball,

As Martin Luther King Jr. said “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education”. Some may say, that standardized testing is beneficial. However, standardized testing has no good use and should be eliminated from schools. The current routine of standardized testing in schools is taking away from student and teacher creativity and innovation. Students often don’t score well, so standardized test results aren’t an accurate picture of a student’s overall intelligence.

Gender, culture, socioeconomic biases give White, affluent, and male test-takers advantages on standardized tests. This occurrence is problematic because it adversely impacts, a definable subgroup of test takers when to compare with the remainder of the test takers. When a test is biased, it can be problematic if the differential validity test is not equally valid for relevant subgroups. Argumentatively, that there is no such thing as a bias-free test, but it can still be unfair. African American students are the recipients of this inequity versus any another racial/ethnic group. Theoretically, the test-makers must aim to reduce or lower test bias for racial, gender, ethnic groups. Always consider African Americans’ background experiences

Try to imagine if there were no standardized testing. So you have to teach the same stuff year after year again without any changes. What if those kids already know that lesson and need taught harder things? When there's standardized testing you can see if all the students are above the grade level or under their grade level.So that tells you need to teach them higher level school work or if their not that smal then a lower grade of school work or be in a class with more teachers for more help.

Based upon the sources I have cited, standardized testing can be biased or unfair to students, tests are created and often are not written by people with no to little teaching experiences, teachers are forced to teach test material, thus eliminating a student's creativity, and students are given over the requirements of testing.

Standardized tests can cause unnecessary stress on, already stressed, students. Reports show that stress levels increase during standardized testing. Three fourths of psychologist in New York claimed that statewide assessments create larger amounts of

There are many complaints from students about taking these standardized tests. They complain mostly because of one reason. This very large reason is because of the stress it puts on the student not only during the test, but over the course of the whole school year. Students know from the start that they will be tested on everything they have learned that school year. I’m sure it’s not just me but, over the course of the year, I don’t remember everything. You learn so much over the course of one school year that it’s hard to obtain everything you learn. This is what causes the students to stress so much. Yes, they review most of it before the test but sometimes students just for get things and need to be re-taught them. Students are stressing

The problem of standardized testing in the American public system is founded on the systemic generalization of student’s intelligence. These tests are often engineered to the student through an uncreative and linear evaluation of their knowledge base. In this manner, standardized testing only measures a small range of cognitive and mental capabilities of the student, which often focus on writing, reading, math, and the sciences: “The obsession with raising student standardized test scores is leading

“Everyone is a Genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” -Albert Einstein. The modern school system is failing, and standardized tests are the biggest reason behind it. Not only does it ruin creativity and individuality, but a single test can determine a student's future. We should not be taking standardized tests seriously.

Standardized testing is clearly a way to categorize young students into intelligence groups. Our nation uses this form of testing to separate superior students from average ones. “Testing has shaped curriculum and

Do you remember the days when your teacher handed out the test booklet along with a No. 2 pencil? The use of these particular pencils is a holdover from the 1930s when the machines that graded the answer sheets detected the electrical conductivity of graphite (“Is the Use of Standardized Testing Improving Education in America?”). Standardized testing has been around for almost 150 years with the first ideas of it being presented about 180 years ago (Fletcher). Defined by W. James Popham, former president of the American Educational Research Association, standardized tests are "any test that's administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner." Its long history means that it has come a long way and has just as far to go. That being said, standardized testing is necessary to measure students’ intelligence, but can be improved.