The Effects Of Standardized Testing

Microaggressions can be any commonplace comments that are intended or not, to offend another person. However, one might think individuals would be aware if they inherently said something offensive. Microaggressions are even apparent in standardized testing and academia as test writers and teachers can unintentionally degrade students with a seemingly innocent statement. Standardized tests are allegedly supposed to test student’s knowledge of what they have learned or previously known. The tests also reflect the academic progress of the school to determine the quality of education that the school provides. Standardized tests seem to be an unbiased way of determining skill, but the tests do not take into account student’s home lives, as well

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.

The definition of success and routes to success may be different, but it is undeniable that all people want to succeed in their lives. According to Malcolm Gladwell, success is seen as an achievement coming from hidden opportunities, effort, diverse backgrounds, or cultural legacy, in life. However, I believe education is one of the factors that contribute the achievement of individuals. There are flaws or inequalities in the United States’ education system, and one of these is the use of standardized test which is the issue that comes in between the individual and their successes. In order to increase the chance of success for an individual, standardized testing should be revoked from education because it does not measure the creativity and knowledge of students which play important roles for one to succeed.

Introduction: Standardized testing is used to hold schools accountable. The pressure to have students pass the STAAR test has negatively impacted education, because teachers to narrow curriculum in order to focus on material on the test. Standardized testing is causing the deterioration of a meaningful curriculum in the Texas Education System

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.

42% of high school seniors in Ohio are not set to graduate because of their poor scores on standardized tests. Students all over the United States are forced to take statewide standardized tests each year. Many claim that standardized testing allows for teachers to help their students easier, and that it holds school districts accountable. While school mandated standardized testing can be useful, statewide standardized testing is ineffective and negatively impacts students.

Standardized testing causes teachers to only “teach the test” which means they neglect other subjects in school to only focus on the material that will be on the test; this leaves students feeling frustrated, stressed, negative, and unengaged.In a study conducted by the Center on Educational Policy, the data showed that 71% of schools reduced time spent in class in at least one non-tested subject in order to expand the time allowed for subjects tested, such as reading and math. Similarly, 33% of schools in the districts reduced time in social studies, 29% of schools decreased time in science, and 22% reduced time spent on music and art. This causes children to become so tired with their increased amount of learning, that they become frustrated with their teachers, their peers, and the school themselves. What is society doing when it overworks kids so

In public schools today standardized testing is what the teachers are most concerned with. In the educational system so much stock is placed in passing the required test to graduate and to move on that many educators feel as though they are no longer able to do their job. When faced with the pressure of the testing many students become anxious and worry so much about passing the test that in all reality they make their performance suffer. In high stakes testing about nine percent of students showed signs of high anxiety, this is about the same as the amount during low stakes in class testing. The big difference in high and low stakes testing is that 59 percent of students were

Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) the number of standardized tests conducted in American education has exploded leaving parents and educators alike to question how all this time and focus spent on testing is impacting the learning process? The answer to this question is critical to understanding if the NCLB is accomplishing its goal or eroding the American education system. The proliferation of standardized tests has fundamentally changed the structure of classroom instruction by shifting much of the focus to test preparation or teaching to the test as it is commonly known. This change in education approach towards teaching to the test is hurting America’s

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.

Anya Kamenetz, an education scholar, focused this interview on the effects of standardized testing in schools. Specifically, the negative effects it has on the quality of education children get. She dives into the pressure schools face to attain high test scores and the problems associated with teaching to the test. She concludes the interview by explaining changes the school systems could make in order to limit this. Other sources have complementary evidence, so it’d classify it as reliable. Kamenetz also has a blog and has written a book on her case against standardized tests. This article mounts her bias openly by focuses on the negative aspects of standardized testing to get listeners to understand its impact on schools. This source can

Testing is a common way to measure a student’s learning, where their strengths are and where they may need more help. Standardized testing in the United States has increased in the past decade becoming a normal part of schooling therefore students with test anxiety have increased. No Child Left Behind signed by President George Bush in 2001 states that it is mandatory for 3rd through 8th graders to take annual reading and math tests. The federal legislature believed that standardized testing would improve a student's motivation and raise achievement when they passed the No Child Left Behind Law. Assuming that with the rewards and repercussions that come wit the test will be motivate the students to do well and study.

Imagine sitting in a cold classroom in the last month of school filling bubbles in on an answer sheet instead of playing outside with some of your friends because you haven’t finished your test yet. What do you think? Should we take standardized tests?

While Standardized Testing started out as a way to track how well schools were teaching students, it has now turned into a way of testing students’ intelligence which has a very negative impact upon the students’ themselves. Now, schools embrace High Stakes tests, which are tests that are taken and used to make important decisions about students. The most common example of this would be the end of the semester tests in classes. These tests usually make up one-fourth of a students’ grade and determines whether or not they pass their class. Unfortunately, that much pressure on a single test has very negative impacts on students. It has dealt out negative effects such as lower knowledge about the subject, test anxiety, dropout rates, and even the students having to change schools because of the school being closed down.

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