Arguments Against Standardized Testing
Shelby Park
Miss Sample and Mrs. Johnson
Presentation Literacy
6 March, 2015
Standardized Tests: Impacting Students and Teachers Everywhere
Standardized testing is a typical occurring activity across the United States. These tests are used to share the progress of students academically. Standardized tests vary from state to state since each state is allowed to design and create their own tests. However, there have been many arguments for and against standardized testing.
Standardized testing is key to our national reform movement in school. Politicians say many high school graduates cannot do the basic reading, writing, or mathematics necessary to function in the United States (Williams). Students need to learn how to focus more in school. …show more content…
Studies show standardized tests generate students and teachers to feel pressured. Especially gifted students who feel they need to score well to bring up the test scores overall so the school looks exceptional (Moon, Brighton, Jarvis, Hall). Teachers feel pressured by making sure their curriculum and instruction meet the criteria for standardized tests so they are not teaching their students the wrong material. Students spend so much time in preparation for these tests and worrying about them that they end up forgetting the material they’ve been taught (Moon et al.). Most teachers focus on the basic skills only for standardized tests and diminish the depth of the rest of their curriculum (Moon et …show more content…
The best way to maximize or improve education is to measure it so policy makers know how to make the tests better or advance the curriculum in schools (Augustine). There are a set of nationwide achievement goals known as the Common Core State Standards (Augustine). These are benchmarks in english and mathematics that reflect what young Americans will need to know if they are to compete with students from China, Singapore, Finland, South Korea and elsewhere. Instead of speaking against the Common Core, policy makers can see this as having an opportunity to make the standardized tests better since other countries are out performing the United States
Miss Sample and Mrs. Johnson
Presentation Literacy
6 March, 2015
Standardized Tests: Impacting Students and Teachers Everywhere
Standardized testing is a typical occurring activity across the United States. These tests are used to share the progress of students academically. Standardized tests vary from state to state since each state is allowed to design and create their own tests. However, there have been many arguments for and against standardized testing.
Standardized testing is key to our national reform movement in school. Politicians say many high school graduates cannot do the basic reading, writing, or mathematics necessary to function in the United States (Williams). Students need to learn how to focus more in school. …show more content…
Studies show standardized tests generate students and teachers to feel pressured. Especially gifted students who feel they need to score well to bring up the test scores overall so the school looks exceptional (Moon, Brighton, Jarvis, Hall). Teachers feel pressured by making sure their curriculum and instruction meet the criteria for standardized tests so they are not teaching their students the wrong material. Students spend so much time in preparation for these tests and worrying about them that they end up forgetting the material they’ve been taught (Moon et al.). Most teachers focus on the basic skills only for standardized tests and diminish the depth of the rest of their curriculum (Moon et …show more content…
The best way to maximize or improve education is to measure it so policy makers know how to make the tests better or advance the curriculum in schools (Augustine). There are a set of nationwide achievement goals known as the Common Core State Standards (Augustine). These are benchmarks in english and mathematics that reflect what young Americans will need to know if they are to compete with students from China, Singapore, Finland, South Korea and elsewhere. Instead of speaking against the Common Core, policy makers can see this as having an opportunity to make the standardized tests better since other countries are out performing the United States