Standardized Testing Usage In The United States

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

Standardized testing has been in our education system since the 1800’s the use of them became more frequent in 2012, when the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was reinstated, making testing mandatory throughout the education system. Though, these tests gives the schools, teachers, and parents and overall data report on each student it still doesn’t prove anything. You can’t prove that teachers and schools aren’t doing their jobs by students’ academic performance through testing, to many factors play a role in the individuals' test scores. For instance, you may have students test behaviors, students with undetected learning disabilities, and you may have students that just don’t care. The data received from these tests should instead focus on the individual students strengths and weaknesses to better assist the schools, teachers, and parents with helping the student achieve

Currently, there are around 37 thousands schools in the United States. Each year, there are more than a million students that applying for college institutions (National Center for Educational Statistics). As an university admission office, it is often difficult to select students based on numbers and words that show up on their application without knowing the applicant. Since there are many factors and can impact a student’s high school experience and performance, it is unfair to be comparing every student in the United States with a same standard. In order to minimize these differences, standardized tests were invented along with the No Child Left Behind act in 2001 which enforced all students to participate. Ideally, standardized tests are objective and graded by computer. The test is expected to be evaluating all students with the same standards. While the educators and designers of the standardized tests focus on generating a test that allows them to compare all students fairly, they abandon the fact that all students’ resources and backgrounds are inevitably different. Assuming that all elements of an educational system serve to benefit students’ learnings, standardized testing is an inadequate method of evaluation due to its negative impact on students and teachers’ mindsets, inaccuracy in evaluation of students’ abilities, and 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.

Over the last two decades America’s educational system has been descending on the national ranking chart. According to Rankingamerica.com, countries like South Korea and Japan are leading the charts in education while the U.S is rank number fourteen. There are many attributes that play a part of this destruction, but the overuse of the unforgiving arrangement of standardized testing has a strong presence. Though, standardized testing has been around since the 1800’s but the tests that are implemented today are no match for educators or students.

The nations that outperform the United States—Finland, Shanghai-China, South Korea—do not place such heavy emphasis on standardized testing. “In the last few decades, U.S. and Finnish education policies have appeared to be moving in opposite directions. While U.S. public schools moved to standardized testing, Finnish schools eschewed nationwide tests to evaluate teachers, students or schools, instead relying on sample-based testing and school principals to identify potential problems” (Tung). Finnish schools are the highest ranked in the world, having ranked “sixth in math, second in science and third in reading” (Tung) while “U.S. students ranked 30th, 23rd and 17th, respectively” (Tung). Finland’s education system differs greatly

Although the No Child Left Behind Act was originally passed to raise the international ranking of the United States in education, the U.S. slipped from 18th place in the world in math to 31st place in 2009 (standardizedtests.procon.org). However, one of the countries that did top the PISA rankings was Finland. According to Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura McCloskey, Stanford University researchers, Finland uses no standardized tests to rank or evaluate students. The only way for the United States to climb the global rankings in education is to create new methods to improve our education, because standardized testing sure isn’t.

Did you know that kids take 20-25 hours on standardized tests. Sides of this argument are how they should change the test, while the other is keep the same tests. I think that we should change because there’s too much time spent on it, because government money can be spent to limit tests, and we don't need to many tests.

I t is well known that Standardized testing is not popular with students, but many teachers also do not agree with the method as well. Teachers see the testing as a burden and an end to creative and fun curriculum. Teachers teach all year for what will be on the test. Students are forced to learn by memorization quickly with so much knowledge being imposed on them at one time. Teachers have to teach so many core factors that they do not have hours to spend the wanted and needed lot of time on certain content. The article “It’s déjà vu all over again!” includes comments from educators on testing “The tests tend to measure factual memorization of names and dates, rather than important conceptual understandings and interpretations” (pg.199). Children can profess when and where The Battle of Gettysburg was, but could not express what the speech was about and the lasting impositions of the speech. They memorize a topic to pass a test. That is standardized testing. That is not learning.

Every year in the U.S students all over the country have to take at least one standardized test. On average, a student from Pre-K to 12th grade will take about 112 tests in his or her whole school experience.What this means is that we take a lot of standardized tests and some people think this is a problem.We take a lot more tests than other countries.While we take about 112 tests a year,other countries have only half of that.I think the government needs to change the standardized tests.This essay will explain that the government needs to change the standardized tests because we take the most standardized tests, it stresses out people,and they take away learning time.

Although standardized testing has been a partial component of many schools’ curriculums since the 1800’s, its popularity rapidly increased after the “No Child Left Behind Act” was passed in 2002. This Act stated that from that point onward, it was necessary for children in all fifty states to complete some form of a standardized examination annually. But are these tests genuinely an efficient and reliable way of testing a student's knowledge? . Due to the the pressures of having to perform perfectly on standardized examinations, many children and teachers feel the need to game the system, making the results of these tests inaccurate. Not only are the examination results

Exams are like your girlfriend. They ask way too many questions, they are difficult to understand, there is always more explanation needed, and of course the result is you always fail. I like to think this accurately describes how most people feel about standardized tests, but then again, I don't really think people ever feel fondly about a standardized tests. Now we have taken standardized test since elementary school so why do we all still suck at them? Let’s face it America has a pretty bad average on test taking skills. Maybe it's because of the fact that up until you’re a junior in high school none of those other standardized test matter. Those tests are basically just an excuse for you not to have to go through your normal boring school

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.

Limiting the number of required standardized tests for students under the age of fourteen and implementing other, more effective measures of student achievement and school performance would benefit students in the US. Standardized tests have proven to be ineffective. And as evidenced by Finland’s high international literacy rankings, their limited testing policies show that not everything that counts can be

In the past several years, standardized testing has been increasingly used as the most meaningful method for evaluating students but is it accurate indicator of student performance? Standardized testing can be described as the use of tests that are managed, scored, and understood in a predetermined, standard way. There are two main kinds of standardized tests that are widely used in schools i.e. standardized aptitude and standardized achievement tests. The aptitude tests are used to provide predictions regarding the performance of a test taker in a successive setting. On the contrary, the achievement tests are designed to predict the effective acquisition of knowledge and certain skills by a test taker. While students' score on aptitude tests are sometimes used in a school evaluation system, the most typical ones that determine a school's success are achievement tests. One of the major concerns of the use of standardized testing is whether the practice can be so prevalent yet so mistaken or inappropriate. Standardized testing is inaccurate because it lacks reliability, fairness, and objectivity, its expensive, highly demanding, and instructionally insensitive despite contrary opinions.