The Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing

Standardized tests are created to compare a student to an unrealistic standard. They have many different standardized tests that students start taking as early as the third grade, and then continue to take these torturous tests all throughout high

The purpose of this research is to examine perceptions of student test anxiety in elementary school.

Some students can develop a so called anxiety from school. “Students who are just learning to read and are a little slower than the rest feel anxious about reading in front of others. Tests generate anxiety in almost everyone who takes them seriously. Threats of failure and the shame associated with failure

Test anxiety is a huge thing for adolescence and it can cause extreme stress. Testing anxiety is seen to be a combination of physiological symptoms along with dread and fear that one will fail their task. This can make it to where there is a huge barrier to the learning and performance of an individual, test anxiety can cause a child to completely regress and have a negative impact on their grade as well as the overall performance in a classroom setting. Depending on the pressure that the child is under can make this anxiety of a test worse or possibly better depending on how the child thrives in that situation. When one is known to have this anxiety health concerns are an issue as well since this anxiety can make a person breath a

I Think standardize tests don’t measure a student intelligence. Not everyone would agree with my opinion but testing makes students feel very unsettled and nerves. Standardized testing do not measure a student’s intelligence. Standardized testing has a purpose and it shouldn’t ever challenge a person mind. It could lead them thinking if they are smart. These tests could have a negative impact on student and teacher health and I can add stress to administration because state funding is tied to the scores. But for some people standardized testing can track yearly educational growth patterns and provide local school systems with state and national comparison.

Several students including, I have at down to take an exam and instantly blanked when answering questions on material you spent a long time studying for. The statement above is an example of students who are not great test takers and suffer when it comes to taking standardized tests. The above example is always known as text anxiety which is shown by feelings of dread and nervousness before a major test and can cause a great deal of harm to students. According to an article written by Laura Hinkle, a high school Junior states that” standardized testing … [is] one of the causes of anxiety throughout [her] educational career she said it all started in elementary school” (Hinkle). Anxiety can completely carry over a person’s lifespan and can cause someone to be in perpetual fear of disappointing others. Some other ways of students not doing well on tests may include on the day of the test they are having a bad day. Also, maybe they didn’t get a chance to eat something this will cloud a student’s judgment and will make them not do well. Students maybe have a hard time taking timed tests because it takes them longer to process the information than others. One thing that I can attest to doing is walking into the test and sit down and second guess thinking I don’t know the material as well as I thought I did. Overcoming this takes a lot of practice, and I’ve soon realized this came in effect when I hit college and taking more advanced

Headaches, nausea, and sweat dripping, the nervousness of failing affects students around the world. Many students have extreme test anxiety that causes them to have difficulties taking tests. Test anxiety has been identified in many students who have a fear of failure or are perfectionists. These students are not ones known to procrastinate either. They study and pay attention in class but, when it comes

What would students do if they didn’t have to take a standardized test - would they be happy, or would the students be upset that they didn't get an opportunity that others did? Students who decide that they do not want to learn in school and choose to be homeschooled do not have to take these standardized tests. This makes it difficult to know whether or not homeschooled students are actually getting an education at home. Taking standardized tests is a record of your learning. If there are kids who don't have records of what they learned or how they are doing, then it can affect their future for college and jobs. Homeschooled students should be required to take standardized tests so there is a record of how well they are learning.

“Standardized testing has become the arbiter of social mobility, yet there is more regulation of the food we feed our pets that of the tests we give our kids ” (Robert Schaeffer quotes)

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Frederick J Kelly, man who invented standardized test, once said “ these test are to cruel to be used and should be abandoned” People assume that standardized testing is a good way of comparing the performance levels of various students from different schools and locations. Without standardized testing, this will not be possible. What people often do not know is that standardized testing is an unreliable way of measuring the performance of a student. Although most schools make students take standardized tests, it does not measure the knowledge of a student.

Standardized tests can cause so much stress that on March 14, 2002 the Sacramento Bee reported that "test-related jitters, especially among young students, are so common that the Stanford-9 exam comes with a test booklet in case a student vomits on it." It is atrocious to find out that this is true.

Andy Hudlow once said “The goal of standardized testing is not to find out how well you think through problems, or if you can express your opinions, or create a presentation, the goal is to find out what you were able to memorize.” A standardized test by definition is “any form of a test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of question from a common bank of questions, in the same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or a consistent manner…”(Concepts). Today there are a multitude of standardized tests that students all over the United States take.

Taking standardized tests for college admission has been a requirement for decades. Over the past few years, there has been many discussions’ and research done about standardized testing and their correlation to college admission. Some schools now do not require students to submit their test scores, such as the ACT or the SAT any longer. The dispute regarding standardized testing for college admission is still in process, but I believe that your academic achievement is not the only thing colleges should be looking at during the application process, but also one’s character, drive and work ethic.

In other studies conducted on the relationship between anxiety and result of the test/evaluation, the source of test anxiety has been found in the students’ poor preparation. Ie poor preparation/organisation=test anxiety=poor performance.