The Benefits Of Standardized Testing

Texas takes the STAAR, Alabama the ARMT, and Hawaii the HSA. Each state in the U.S. has a standardized test required of every student. From the ACT and SAT to the STAAR tests, standardized testing has become common practice for almost every student. The earliest records of standardized testing are when in China, anyone wanting to get a job in government had to fill out their knowledge of Confucian philosophy and poetry in examination. As more and more kids began to go to school during the Industrial Revolution, standardized testing spread as a way to quickly and easily test a large number of students. But not everyone agrees with the tests, stating that they are unreliable, and that the stakes are too high. Standardized tests cause immense amount of stress for not only students, but teachers as well. And the tests might not even be effective, causing more anxiety than it's worth.

standardized tests is that they lack a level of comprehension and are incapable of succeeding in the educational system. This belief is especially prevalent in regards to high stakes tests such as college entrance and high school graduation exams because the focus is on the test score. The perception is that these scores are the sole indicator of the student’s knowledge of a subject and their ability to succeed at a higher level of education. Therefore,

Growing up in Chesapeake every student is forced to take a standardized test at the end of every class they take. Standardized testing has been a part of the educational system for so long that everyone is just accustomed to taking these tests or giving them out. Standardized testing does not just effect the students but it also effects the teachers. Chesapeake School Board should get rid of standardized testing in all grade levels because of different learning style, it limits the teachers to what they can teach and poor test scores.

The consequences of the SAT have been seen as physically and mentally deteriorating for students. However, not only does the stress affect the students preparing for the SAT, but it also affects the instructors who are required to teach the material. Many students are being “forced into their respective testing rooms for up to three hours per day, slaving away on exams that most of us have struggled through (Ayers).” Likewise, “due to the pressures faced by administration, teachers [are] essentially [forced to] teach students how to approach and solve problems expected on standardized exams (Kokoszka).” Furthermore, according to Thomas Kellaghan et al, “testing pressures teachers into teaching for the test and thus leads to a narrowing of the

Imagine if you or a friend had a talent for art, music, or foreign languages, but the school you attend cut back on the time spent focusing on these multiple subjects and decided to focus on more “important” subjects. Standardized test scores show the academic standing of an individual student and are used to compare that student to others across the U.S. This can create an immense amount of pressure on students to do well. Standardized tests focus on the core subjects of math and reading, with a smaller emphasis on science and writing. If the tests only focus on four main subjects than how can they measure other important traits or skills? We all have so many talents beyond the core subjects that do not show up on a test. Standardized tests

Every year, the daunting prospect of standardized testing brings anxiety to thousands of high school students. Their stress is for good reason: a student’s performance on college admission exams - most importantly, the ACT and SAT - is a major determinant in deciding where they will go to college. For decades, such standardized tests have been near-universally accepted as part of the admissions process: proponents argue, as Syverson explains, that such tests are the only way of standardizing assessment when high schools have such widely varying environments and grading criteria (2007). However, in the past decade a growing anti-testing movement has begun to poke holes in

Tenth grade standardized testing in Pennsylvania is so unnecessary that makes a student complete in order to view their progress. This testing technique produces unpredictable results that allows one to review and come across their own judgment when accessing these tests. High school teachers sometimes tell students how their job depends on the results of the test. High school administrators tell the students that if they do not pass these tests, then they can not graduate on time. They make it seem like these tests are very important and make it a mindset to students that they need to try to conquer these tests just to meet the necessary graduation requirements. The shadows of the tenth grade Pennsylvania standardized testing needs to be overlooked

Did you know that “Texas spends about 90 million dollars a year’’ (Scott Friedman 1) on a standardized test. 90 million dollars a year is an absurd amount of money to spend on a test when we could be using that money for something more beneficial to the state of Texas. That is just one reason standardized testing is not necessary in the state of Texas.

Today, many schools are enforcing final testing at the ending point of each class. The testing that is given to students is standardized testing. Standardized testing is testing that is given to students based on what they have learned individually from the subject they have been taught. This testing is to see if the student have learned anything and to see if the staff did their jobs with that particular subject. It also sees if the school is on the right path. Standardized testing is given to every individual with the class they are in, and that testing grade is counted with their final grade. Standardized testing starts in 3rd grade which is an EOG . The average student in America’s big-city public schools takes some 112 mandatory standardized

“Standardized tests occur in an artificial learning environment: they’re timed, you can’t talk to a fellow student, you can’t ask questions, you can’t use references or learning devices, you can’t get up and move around. How often does the real world look like this?” (Armstrong). Standardized testing is becoming more significant in the lives of students and causing some major problems. These test scores are being used to determine whether or not a student is accepted into a certain college and even the scholarship money allowed. This is putting a tremendous amount of stress on the students and the teachers that have to prepare them. While some people can ace tests in the blink of an eye, many people can’t handle the pressure.

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

In the year of 1845, Horace Mann proposed the idea of written exams, as opposed to the traditional oral exam. Mann wanted to achieve the discovery of new and innovative teaching methods to ensure that students were receiving the best education, as well as equal opportunities in school. Despite the educational pioneer’s suggestion of promising unsurpassed schooling through written exams, these standardized assessments became something much more intense than what Mann had planned (Gershon). From students receiving one-hundred and thirteen standardized assessments throughout their entire schooling career to spending twenty to twenty-five hours of wasted classroom time taking these assessments, education is rapidly becoming limited. Education has

In the past standardized test were an important tool first used in ancient China to find people jobs in the government, they then came to the U.S during world war one to find recruits places in the military. Now they can still be a very useful tool used mainly by school districts across the U.S to judge the effectiveness of the schools and teachers. However, more often than not these test are overused and give inaccurate measures of intelligence. Standardized test can be very useful tools used to evaluate many things, but they are only able to test simple ideas and often don’t have appropriate accommodations to level the playing field for students with disabilities.

High-stakes standardized tests are tests that determine awards, punishments, compensations, and advancements for a school. These tests hold standards that students are expected to reach and that the teachers are expected to bring the students to reach. Emergent bilinguals are the students we refer to as English Language Learners in American Schools: students whose primary language may not be English. According to the book Educating Emergent Bilinguals, “It has been widely demonstrated that as a result of inadequate high-stakes tests, emergent bilinguals experience more remedial instruction, greater probability of assignment to lower curriculum tracks, higher drop out rates, poorer graduation rates, and disproportionate referrals to special education classes (103). All of these are negative results associated with high-stakes tests and emergent bilinguals.

At eleven months old, my parents found me inside the house shaking. Immediately, I was rushed to the hospital and was diagnosed with Epilepsy. Eventually, I was placed in special needs classes and I was able to develop with the help of my parents, teachers, doctors, and therapists. For that reason, standardized testing has never been an accurate indicator of my academic outcome. For example, I took the SAT twice and the ACT once. Unfortunately, both scores were not helpful. In the end, I had to take the PERT exam, where I was able to obtain high scores and be exempted from pre-college courses. Although I have invested and studied for the LSAT for over eight months, I was still unable to receive the average score due to my fear of failing and