The Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing

Each year high school students from around the country take the SAT or ACT. The ACT and SAT are both standardized test used by colleges to determine the knowledge of a student and predict what their performance will be in their first year of college. An immense amount of pressure is put on student to receive certain scores in order to obtain scholarships and admission into college. Even just one point on a student’s score can determine if they will be accepted into their dream college. However, the results from standardized tests, such as the ACT and SAT, are often inaccurate. Because of this one’s knowledge and academic ability are misrepresented, and they are denied certain opportunities. Standardized tests such as the ACT and the SAT

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.

It continues to be a topic of controversy debate not just among educators in the United States but in many parts of the world. The debate on standardized testing is more important than what it is given credit for. Not enough people know the reality of standardized testing and its lack of effectiveness when testing for student achievement. Although they are the right task that help schools to keep up with the students’ progress they’re the wrong tools for showing student academic achievements. Therefore, they should be improved in their effectiveness to meet all students standards regardless of their race or social

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.

Colleges have long since used the SAT as a deciding factor of whether or not a student

Standardized tests were given to individuals hoping to acquire a position in the Chinese government during the 7th century, Medieval Knights hoping to be selected to defend their kingdom, and Army officer candidates during World War I. However, only recently have they been used to test the level of knowledge possessed by a student in the classroom. Laws are being introduced by government officials that are requiring schools to meet nearly unattainable standards. The required criterion is placing enormous pressure on school districts, administrators, and teachers. Standardized tests should no longer be used

In recent changes occurring in many different states, questions have been rising about school requirements and regulations. Now is the time that school districts are determining whether to change the curriculum or to modify the way objectives are carried out. One major issue being discussed is standardized tests. Standardized tests are tests that require all students taking the test to answer the same set of questions, so it can be scored equally in every state or county that is taking it. These tests are meant to test a student’s knowledge and understanding, but over the past few years that is not the case. Standardized testing as a government requirement should be limited because not all assessments truly test student learning and

Standardized tests set a standard for all students to be at the same level of intelligence and comprehension, whether it be Keystone exams, Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT), or the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, America is obsessed with having their students reach a certain score or better. With the addition of high school exit exams, are we taking standardized testing too far? The argument that the Washington Post gives in one of its articles uses arguments such as the facts that come from these tests and what should be required of graduating high school.

whose purpose is to ensure fairness and accuracy in student test taking, said: "The widespread

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.

Standardized tests have been part of American culture since the 1800s. Many disappointments in the education system have been blamed on the use of standardized tests. Standardized tests do not measure student achievement or ability.

School for 10 months each year, for 12 years of a person’s life. Students getting taught four main subjects each day: math, science, history, and science. Then, every year, students typically take one big standardized test, or even more. These tests are claimed to give educators an objective that’s unbiased. Standardized testing supposedly helps identify the natural tendency of individual students, identifying skill development and progress. However, are these things what standardized testing really do for students?

Eighty out of one hundred-eighty days, on average of twenty point three percent for eighth graders, one hundred-twelve tests overall, twenty-five percent on average, these are statistics found on the amount of time that standardized test take.(*****) Which doesn’t include the optional exams like the Advanced Placement (AP), American College Training (ACT), or the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), along with the inclass exams like the tests, quizzes, and prep time taken for all of these exams. Are classrooms over testing their student’s? *

Another standardized test given is the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers or PARCC. This one was developed to measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and careers.

On past standardized tests I did good like at my old school East Oakland Leadership Academy or EOLA for short, I would past the test and if we did good on the test our principal would give us money for doing good on the test so if you had a B throw a B+ You'll get $5 and if u had a A throw a A- you would get a $10 bill. I consider myself being a good test taker when I know how to do the test but then I consider myself a bad test taker when I don't know the material. Yes I always been that way because that's how I just take test when I first started taking the test when the test really was a big thing. I prepare for Standardized test by studying the week before and the week of the test and I also study the day before the test. The night before