Standardized Testing Flaws

Getting an education is the main goal for everyone, although it is easy to obtain there are some obstacles to it. One of the main obstacles students face at the beginning of their education is standardized tests. Schools have started to adopt this type of tests as their main way to evaluate students’ intelligence and teachers’ effectiveness to educate the students. The way students used to learn has changed, in order to get them ready for the tests they have to spend much of the school time preparing for it instead of learning something they can use in their future life. According to Bruce Jacobs in No Child Left Behind's Emphasis on 'Teaching to the Test' Undermines Quality Teaching, a 2007 study by the University of Maryland teachers were put in much pressure and had thoughts to teach the test […]. This shows that teachers have also been affected by standardized tests in a way they have more pressure to make students pass. Having teachers ‘teach the test’ means their way to educate has been corrupted. In most cases when teachers’ ability to educate has been changed leads them to practice methods not convenient for scholars. One of these methods is memorization, in Relying on High-Stakes Standardized Tests to Evaluate Schools and Teachers: A Bad Idea by Hani Morgan describes how students start to adapt to an “inferior type of learning, based on memorization and recall students gain when teachers

Would you like to take a test that is unfair, expensive, and unreliable? Chances are you already have. Standardized testing in schools is not only bad for the students, but also bad for our country’s future. Some might think standardized testing is a good thing, because it is the only way to measure all students the same across the country. However, this thought is wrong for many reasons.

Throughout high school and college we will go through a vast amount of testing but why? Testing is used to show a person’s amount of knowledge on a particular subject. Usually it’s for one specific subject and not a majority of them, standardized tests administered in schools today include all testable subjects as in English, Math, Science, Writing, and Reading. However, before we can all take the next step and begin our college careers, we have to take one of two tests, the ACT or the SAT. These two exams demine the college you get into, the amount of scholarships you will receive, and even whether or not your will be accepted into said college, all determined by the score you receive.

Stress, that is what all students go through when they have to take the Standardized Test. Kids stress out over these big Test called the Standardized Test because they determine students future class. It can go all the way up to the High School where students would take the SAT that would determine one’s future. Also the kind of job people would get in the future. Kids are getting tired of the standardized test. People should take action and giving no kids standardized test.

A major issue that both teachers and students find with American schools is the overemphasis on standardization. One example that can be found on this is the excessive use of standardized tests. In the United States, the average schoolchild will take a total of 112 mandatory standardized tests, a number that has many educators and parents concerned that “too much emphasis has been placed” on standardization (Layton; Strauss). For example, standardization has placed too much emphasis on test-taking and scoring high on mandated examinations rather than actual learning (Wright). And even though both federal and state governments have policies of standardization in education, multiple studies have found that “there is no evidence” that such practices

Standardized Testing can be both a benefit to the educational community and a very serious problem. Standardized Testing is said to have negative effects on both the students and the teachers. Standardized Testing has created many problems and has become a very big factor in politics. Some people argue that the government is influencing the education system. While others believe that the government isn’t involved enough. There are many pros and cons to both but the cons outnumber the pros.

Today's society holds, above all else, education as one of the most important elements of our nation. Countless hours are spent in Congress filling out government grants for education, new education reform bills, and every standardized test one could possibly imagine. However, with all this time being spent on the education of our nation's future, there is little that is actually being done to help students to achieve their maximum potential. Several key factors are limiting children and young adults across the map from excelling past anyones' wildest imagination. One of these is, as mentioned before, is standardized tests. Also, lack of emotional and mental outreach to students has caused, and will continue to cause, a flawed hole

I agree that standardized testing is fair, because it is the only way of knowing what students are learning. I believe that standardized testing is the best way of knowing if students across the country are learning what is being taught to them, and how they are being taught. If, everywhere else, students are achieving at a certain level, and in one area they are not performing as well as the others, then it allows us to look at what needs to be corrected in that area.

We have all heard the complaints about standardized testing before and I was always wondering what are the negative effects that to our education system, society and economy. What exactly went wrong in standardized test and why it is a major problem for our education system? This research is going to explain what standardized testing is and how it’s been used in higher education. And I would like to compare the differences of standardized testing between the United States and China. The purpose of this research is to find the existing issues and possible solution to solve the problems caused by standardized tests. Based on research that I have already explored, I found how the standardized tests impact students’ academic success. Grade based

Nine year old Gianna is in fourth grade, and took her first standardized test last year. Gianna is a marvelous student and is very attentive in class; however, when it came to the test she did not do well. The whole time she was stressed out, and had no idea what she was doing because she could not focus. Her teacher spent so much class time trying to teach the class about the test that she did not get to learn much about the other subjects. For example, Gianna loves social studies, but her teacher mostly focused on math and language arts. Standardized tests are a form of test that requires all students to answer the same questions, or questions that are similar to each other. Standardized tests have gotten worse throughout the years because

In the commentary ‘The Value of Standardized Testing” (2013), Dr. Gail Gross, an educator specialized in curriculum and instruction, asserts that despite the influx of negative reviews, standardized testing has a positive impact on student performance, curriculum evaluation, and education integrity. Gross develops her implication by utilizing a three-pronged argumentative structure to analyze both the short term and long term advantages that standardized tests have on student growth, both individually and collectively. The author’s purpose is to persuade the readers to transform their opinions about the subject and emphasize the importance of these assessments on a student’s success in school in order to respond to and criticize an article

Albert Einstein once said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid.” Recently, there has been discussion about whether the method of standardized testing is best for our education system. There are a lot of flaws that come with the system of testing. Opposers argue that with all of the flaws, the testing significantly holds American citizens back from greater potential to success. Standardized testing weakens America’s education system, because it can cause teachers to “teach to the test”, does not truly measure intelligence or abilities, and cannot always reflect what a student has learned.

I believe that America should cut standardized test funding by half, and furthermore decrease the number of tests the average student takes. Every generation is different, and the way they are taught is different to the point where not one thing is the same in any way. Before the 1900’s there were no standardized tests, but then by World War I standardized testing became standard for every student (Blasi, 2005). In the span of 50 years, multiple generations were born and they were raised on the seemingly new idea of standardized testing. These generations included veterans, slaves, and people who fought other Americans from different belief systems, so people can understand the skepticism I may have when I ask, was it right to implement

Although the aforementioned statement is specifically about social studies, analogous comparisons can be made regarding the significance of the other subjects. For instance, the disregard of science in school standardized tests may detract from a student’s sense of curiosity or awareness and ability to discover new information. Correspondingly, neglecting the artistic portion of school testing could take away from student creativity, inventive thinking, and cultural awareness (Bryant). In other words, when standardized tests overlook supplementary areas of knowledge, it narrows the focus on the specific subjects or contents that are covered and consequently limits the test taker’s potential gain in individual understanding. Anya Kamenetz,

Although this might be true, in fact, the distinct area has a different capacity of learning. In rural or slum area, people lack access of education as limited schools and teachers at the same time. The way they perceive the subject might be unusual to what other students in normal school learn it. Since they have limited educators, the process of education is also extremely different. For example, a class that supposedly filled up by 30 students, turn out to be more than 50. In this case, a standardized test cannot be applied to evaluate the knowledge of students since they have a limitation in comprehending all the subjects. The majority of poor people have a lower score compared to the wealthy people, which have an impact of the opportunity