Negatives Of Standardized Testing

Do you hate having to take big tests and be stressed out? Standardized testing can be a very stressful time for students. Standardized Tests are just too stressful to keep. Standardized Testing has some very negative effects because its not improving student achievement, has a lot of costs and it can cause stress. First, standardized testing has not improved student achievement. In fact after NCLB in 2002, the U.S. education dropped from 18th to 31st in 2012, there was a similar drop in science and reading. Therefore this shows after NCLB that the U.S dropped in Mathematics, also shows standardized tests have not improved student achievement. Also on May 26th, 2011, the NRC found no evidence tests are working. Thus the NRC basically found no evidence that standardized tests are improving student achievement. Educators don’t yet know how to use test-based encounters to consistently
To begin with Texas spent a total of $9,000,000 to test their students. Thus thats a lot just to test students out of texas’s $88,000,000 income from taxes. Also Highest spending to test students is $144 per student. Thus as you can see $144 is a lot for just one student, school districts could use that money for improving education. In addition the U.S. combined an an average of $1.7 billion dollars spent to test students. Therefore 1.7 billion is a lot just to test students for sometimes inaccurate dates which has other factors like not eating or having a argument. It is obvious that standardized tests have some negative effects such as not improving student achievement, tests have a lot of costs, and they are just too stressful. For these reasons it is clear that standardized test are not necessary and should be dismissed. Schools may get money for good scores on tests but they are too many negative effects from testing. These times can be a nightmare for students and doesn't do any