The Negative Impact Of Standardized Testing On Students

Standardized testing has had a growing emphasis in this country. “A typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade, a new Council of the Great City Schools study found. By contrast, most countries that outperform the United States on international exams test students three times during their school careers.” (Washinton post) School systems now are getting so caught up in these different tests, they are forgetting the real core of what they should be teaching in school, and how they should be going about teaching students. "Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble," Obama said in a video released on Facebook. “So we're going to work with states, school districts,
All the pressure and stress that kids receive and hear from the teachers, as well as the school authorities impact their performance on these tests. They see how big of a deal this can be and that causes them to be much more nervous. This can have negative impact on children’s social, emotional, and academic well-being. This issue not only affects your average student, but has even more of an impact on children coming from low income families and children who have disabilities. These particular students have a lack of parental support or lack of ability to perform at their highest capability. This causes a higher percentage of these students to not finish their schooling in the future. They need to come up with new method of evaluation the students and teachers without making it about the test scores. There needs to be a balance between how important the tests are compared to using your best devices to allow students to grasp the subjects they are
They aren’t only used to grade the intelligence of students at schools but they are also used as a tool to set apart economic status and wealth. It is unjust to use these test for those reason. It hurts some schools paying for these tests. With so much value placed on testing, much of the budget in schools has gone to test preparation materials rather than resources planned to better a student’s learning. This act doesn’t show if children are really learning or not. They are being passed on whether they pass or not. If they don’t pass they continue to the next grade and are? put in classes that allow them to focus on the things they miss on the test. This all goes back to children who don’t test well are being punished for not knowing or being nervous during these