The Benefits Of Standardized Testing In Education

The wide-spread use of standardized testing in the American education system is not helping anybody. Standardized testing was designed to help schools see how their students were performing academically in standard way. The NCLB (No Child Left Behind) Act made standardized testing tied to school funding. It made the government reward or punish schools based on test scores. It was made to help students stay on track. Instead, standardized testing is lowering the quality of education in the United States. Standardized testing puts stress on students, forces schools and teachers to “teach to the test”, and has not helped the United States in worldwide education rankings.

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.

Standardize tests can be used to evaluate a student's understanding and knowledge in subject area. For example, The Georgia Milestones Assessment System (Georgia Milestones) is a comprehensive summative assessment, which measures how well students have learned the knowledge and skills outlined in the state-adopted content standards in English Language Arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Standardize test have a positive effect on instructional decision making in the classroom. Standardize testing can help teachers diagnose student issues, evaluate student academic performance, form small groups, and develop instructional plans.

In most states there’s standardized test for every subject a student takes. Most Americans believe there is too much testing in schools. A major magazine for information about education called Kappan took an annual “PDK/Gallup Poll of the public’s attitude toward public schools” (---, 1) The 2015 polls were over telephone and internet surveys among adults over 18, including public school parents, political party membership, and people of different race. One of the question asked “in your opinion, is there too much emphasis on standardized testing in the public schools in your community, not enough emphasis on testing, or about the right amount?” (---,6) In the national total, 64% said too much emphasis. More than half of the poll view there is too much standardized tests. Now we have Common core that’s suppose to help the problem with high-stake testing. Common Core adds more testing sub-subjects to English and Mathematics for example to test our students more. Kumashiro points out that “more testing would do little to improve education.” (Kumashiro,

When I was younger I always saw my older siblings dread going into highschool and I never understood why. I mean, you get more freedom, you can drive, and you’re that much closer to graduating. What’s not to like? Well, let’s just say I was too young to understand everything that went along with high school. The loads of homework, being in sports, having a job, and trying to have a social life along with your busy schedules. On top of that, you can’t forget the horrid tests every high school student is forced to take. The SAT, ACT, ITBS, MAP, and COMPASS tests are just a few of the tests we have to take throughout our four years. Two of those tests are optional, but the rest are mandatory. You’re given a set amount of time

Are schools teaching students to broaden their minds and think creatively or are they just preparing them for tests? It is important to know whether standardized tests are actually beneficial for students’ learning. Over the last decade, standardized testing has been a more prominent focus for schools. Many students have to be tested every year in order to know what classes they would be placed in. Not only do tests determine what classes students will take but they may also determine whether or not they would be accepted into certain schools. These tests are a major factor that determines whether students advance in their education or not. This major focus on tests steers away from the actual purpose of schools: to teach students and ensure they understand the material. Standardized testing is not that beneficial because it hinders students’ full

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.

The thing is, the US is trying to hard to compete with the rest of the world, as if proving that their citizens are better than others. So rather than having a positive and beneficial learning standard, students are forced to try to learn difficult standardized information because they need to make the US look good.our educational system giving young adults and children detrimental information that they will never use. The US only cares about numbers and looking well, not what the next generation is learning. Standardized and common core learning doesn't give any sort of reason for learning any information, and deals only with the standards of further standardized schooling. Change isn't easy, but it has to be done in order to continue improving

Since the late nineteenth century, standardized testing has been a sustained facet within American schools (Is the Use). Usually, this kind of testing occurs one or two times within the school year. The use of these tests in schools dramatically increased after the passing of the No Child Left Behind act in 2002, which put the demand on schools to be responsible for the academic success of each and every student (Elementary). Recently, however, educational testing of this sort has been under much scrutiny. A lot of people feel that these tests are unfair, to both those who are poor and those who have disabilities, and that they force teachers to only teach material included on the test. Despite these beliefs, standardized testing is heavily

With the incredible way society has been changing over the decades, it is surprised to see the “standard” of standardized testing not change as much as people thought it would. It is sad to say, but the standard of these tests is so loose and all over the place, every college takes the SAT into consideration in an entirely different way than each other. I do not wish, however, for the standard to disappear completely. Getting into college should require some level of a standard. There should be a reward for people who do well in high school and testing. People just do not know how well they should do. The standard is no longer a straight line, but a zigzag line, going up for the standards of some schools and going down for others.

Although standardized testing plays a prominent role in education systems, these tests continue to spark controversy. Even “critics have long warned that a flood of standardized testing is distorting American education” (Rizga & Hernandez, 2015, p. 40). Many people feel as if standardized tests only measure a small portion of what truly make’s a student’s education meaningful (Concordia Online Education, 2016). One of the biggest disadvantages of standardized testing is that the scores of standardized tests are said to measure a student’s intelligence level. If students do not earn an expected score, “students are pushed into remedial classes that zero in on what’s measured on the tests, furthering limiting their opportunities to learn the

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.

One idea that stood out to me was the faults found in U.S. standardized tests. These tests were invented with the purpose of improving the nation's education by measuring how well states do in certain topics and breaking down what teachers should emphasize on more for the upcoming school year. When analyzing the test and the data gained from it, it seems to hinder education in several ways and deserves improvement. The reason i thought this stood out was because it is counter intuitive to what we have been told and what we see in our everyday lives. Personally, I have grown up taking TAKS tests and had always believed that the state had benefited from these examinations, however, with the information we have discussed over the past

Education is the single most important subject for a better future in America and in many other countries. But how can we measure if the students are actually learning and getting a good education? With the use of standardized tests we are now able to evaluate the knowledge of a large number of students regardless of its effects on education. The earliest record of standardized testing originated in China, where candidate applying for government jobs had to be examined in philosophy and poetry . Standardized tests became part of American education in the Industrial Revolution era, where children were being pulled from farms and being placed into schools . Since then the uses of standardized tests have increased in popularity, because the 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) mandated annual testing in all 50 states . Standardized tests have evolved from a requirement for government jobs to comparing and evaluating the knowledge of the students or how well students are likely to perform in an educational setting. Standardized testing has assumed a prominent role in most schools in America, and it is impacting the quality of education given in our country in a negative manner. The current day education is being characterized by standardized test scores, and standardized testing has become the main focus of many debates within the education system. In many schools students are now being tested starting in the third grade due to the laws that have been passed by Congress over

Imagine You walk into the classroom the teacher says time for a standardized test you get out a number 2 pencil you see a bunch of questions that you don’t know the answer too. Then you get nervous and then you start to write down random answers and you get them right but you did not learn anything. Did you know that kids don’t learn from standardized tests and it doesn’t give them any academic advantages? High schoolers mess around on their standardized tests because it’s not a part of their grades.The Sacramento bee reported that testing jitters is so common in Sacramento that they instruct you on what to do if you puke on your test. The US was 18th in math but then the No Child Left Behind law started and then the US slipped to 31st place