State Testing Difficultness

These standardized tests are used by schools because they find that it is an easy way to test a student’s ability. However, the

These tests tend to cause the student’s too much stress and puts pressure on them to obtain a certain score on these test that are required on a yearly basis. Teachers also set aside too much time to teach strategies for taking the test and lecturing on how to eliminate some choices. According to Kathy Frandle this is “A huge waste of instruction time” (Fridy). Furthermore, the unneeded stress generally leads to a state of anxiety and it is “setting too many of them up for devastating failure and, consequently, lowered self esteem (Perrone).

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.

According to education researcher Gregory J. Cizek, these tests are not helping the child. They’re hurting them. He knows that teacher need to show off what their students know, but he just doesn't understand why we have to do these tests. He can tell by his work that more than half of kids have an anxiety toward testing. The student may know a lot, but will freeze during the test. “Standardized testing can create a lot of stress for both educators and students. Excellent teachers quit the profession every day because of how much stress is on them. Students especially feel the pressure when there is something meaningful tied to them. In Oklahoma, high school students must pass four standardized tests in various areas, or they do not earn a diploma, even if their GPA was a 4.00. The stress this can cause on a teenager is not healthy in any way,” he states. His plan is to show people that this is a wrong thing to do and is unhealthy for both educators and the

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,

According to Kxan News “Each year, thousands of Texas students don’t graduate high school because they can’t pass the required standardized tests.”(Prazan) These standardized tests are supposed to be used to show the level of academic improvement within each individual student. However, various students who may do well in school and pass all of their classes have ended up failing the state test, which can lead to them not graduating on time. The materials that make up these tests are not always relevant to what should be needed for a student to move on to the next grade in the first place, which is why they should not be the deciding factor on a student's academic future. Standardized tests are known to

The dreaded week of state test finally come, the halls are filled with cranky kids and bad moods. You then think ‘what do we do this for’. State testing is just to score schools so the state can put them on a list. I do not support state testing because it puts students under unnecessary stress and pressure to be the best. I believe state testing should be limited and/or

All of these test are wearing the students down they are not learning from taking a test there is just to much time spent on testing.With less test we as kids will learn more about the subject they struggle with, and those are just some of the reasons why we need to get rid of some test. If we can reduce the number of test we will still learn but easier.It will be way more simple and we will still be learning the same amount maybe even more. It cant really hurt to try can it?

It takes up time. many students take up 20-25 hours on a single standardized test! The reason why is because that it takes so long to just get one done,

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

Judging a student’s future off of a test that is not structured around their personal abilities is not fair. Every student is not the same, therefor should not be tested like so. It is important to keep in mind that 13% of high school students have a learning disability and many students just have a hard time taking test.

Third, it consumes a lot of time to prepare for standardized testing. Standardized testing causes many teachers to only “teach to the tests” that they neglect to teach students skills that go beyond the tests. The importance is placed on standardized test results that teachers spend more and more time preparing students for it. Meredith Kolodner, the author of the article "Students, Teachers Sweating High-stakes Tests as Parents Rebel Against Constant Prep,” quotes, “ Some schools allocate more than a quarter of the year's instruction to test prep.” Most of the class time are contributed to preparing standardized test that it shuts out the possibility of learning anything new or important. This can impede a student's learning potential.

One reason that they are not needed is that the State Tests limits teachers. A teacher’s job is to expand their students’ knowledge in whatever subject they specialize in. But they cannot do that when the State Test handcuffs them to what they think the teacher should cover. Not letting them expand into what they think is important or needed. They are on such a strict timeline and do not have enough time to teach a bunch of adolescents everything that they

Have you ever wondered what is the point of Standerdized Tests, and why Students are taking so them so much? Some people think the amount of time students spend on testing is fine, and others think we should change it. I think we should reduce standardized testing time because the tests don’t always show what a students knows, they take too much classtime, and they are too stressful.

The determination of passing or failing a course comes down to one test for many schools across America. It is a sad reality. Teachers need to focus on teaching students the crucial information they need for the test instead of simpler, easier topics that waste the school day. The school year and day are only so long and teachers have a lot of information to cover and teach the students. Many jobs require knowledge in math, science, and