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Problems with standardized testing: it might cause children to fail!
Standardized testing has been hailed as the solution to many school performance troubles, and condemned by others as the very cause of them. To measure the capability of the students via any assessment tool, most importantly, we need to know are we measuring the right thing the right way.
People argue that the use of an objective instrument is necessary to measure performance. Because of this concept, standardized testing sounds very appealing to instructors because it measures students by a common yardstick and helps in identifying where problems lie.
Basically, an objective assessment is defined as an assessment that is not dependent on subjective factors like different values, opinions and beliefs of individuals. Different people will inevitably have different views and opinions about ethical principles and politics, even about mundane things like the best the movie and the quality of meals. It is a very troubling fact that nowadays we are teaching our children something that is not applicable in real life.
Obliviously, it is easier to agree on whether a comma has been used correctly than on whether an essay is written articulately or it represents clear thinking. The point of this debate is that this quest for objectivity may lead instructors to measure students on the basis of a criterion that is not suitable.
Only for the sake of a debate, let us suppose that these assessments usually are objective. But in reality, the fact is that standardized tests are not so objective either. It is very easy to believe otherwise because a specific statistically derived figure is given to a student or school. Although, the procedure of this testing and the results are not scientific, because they are a result of the interaction of human beings which can certainly be subjective: the invisible instructor who composes the questions and the students who answer those questions.
These tests can be
Standardized testing has been hailed as the solution to many school performance troubles, and condemned by others as the very cause of them. To measure the capability of the students via any assessment tool, most importantly, we need to know are we measuring the right thing the right way.
People argue that the use of an objective instrument is necessary to measure performance. Because of this concept, standardized testing sounds very appealing to instructors because it measures students by a common yardstick and helps in identifying where problems lie.
Basically, an objective assessment is defined as an assessment that is not dependent on subjective factors like different values, opinions and beliefs of individuals. Different people will inevitably have different views and opinions about ethical principles and politics, even about mundane things like the best the movie and the quality of meals. It is a very troubling fact that nowadays we are teaching our children something that is not applicable in real life.
Obliviously, it is easier to agree on whether a comma has been used correctly than on whether an essay is written articulately or it represents clear thinking. The point of this debate is that this quest for objectivity may lead instructors to measure students on the basis of a criterion that is not suitable.
Only for the sake of a debate, let us suppose that these assessments usually are objective. But in reality, the fact is that standardized tests are not so objective either. It is very easy to believe otherwise because a specific statistically derived figure is given to a student or school. Although, the procedure of this testing and the results are not scientific, because they are a result of the interaction of human beings which can certainly be subjective: the invisible instructor who composes the questions and the students who answer those questions.
These tests can be