What Is Standardized Testing Graduation Requirement
Why Standardized Testing Should Not Be A Graduation Requirement
Standardized testing has been apart of American education since the mid1800s. U.S. students have slipped in performance from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st place in
2009. Failure in the education system have been blamed on rising poverty levels, teacher quality, and increasingly on the pervasive use of standardized testing. Standardized testing should not be a graduation requirement because testing has not improved student achievement, excessive testing may teach students to be good at test taking, but does not prepare them for productive adult lives, and it causes severe stress in young students.
Standardized testing has not improved student achievement. After the No Child Left …show more content…
What makes standardized testing extremely stressful? We, the students, have a set time to finish the test, the instructions are confusing, and the readings, questions and equations are complicated. According to education researcher Gregory J. Cizek, "illustrating how testing... produces gripping anxiety in even the brightest students.”
Some educators believe passing standardized testing with at least a two should be a graduation requirement. This is because stricter standards and increased testing are better ways of getting elementary and high school students prepared for college. In January of 1998, Public
Agenda found that 66% of college professors said "elementary and high schools expect students
to learn too little.” At a college level, there are much higher expectations, have higher standards and harder tests than elementary and high school testing.
Standardized tests are nothing new in public schools. For the past few years, scores from statewide tests in English and math have been used to determine which schools are doing a good job of educating students and which are doing a bad job of educating students. Today, the
Standardized testing has been apart of American education since the mid1800s. U.S. students have slipped in performance from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st place in
2009. Failure in the education system have been blamed on rising poverty levels, teacher quality, and increasingly on the pervasive use of standardized testing. Standardized testing should not be a graduation requirement because testing has not improved student achievement, excessive testing may teach students to be good at test taking, but does not prepare them for productive adult lives, and it causes severe stress in young students.
Standardized testing has not improved student achievement. After the No Child Left …show more content…
What makes standardized testing extremely stressful? We, the students, have a set time to finish the test, the instructions are confusing, and the readings, questions and equations are complicated. According to education researcher Gregory J. Cizek, "illustrating how testing... produces gripping anxiety in even the brightest students.”
Some educators believe passing standardized testing with at least a two should be a graduation requirement. This is because stricter standards and increased testing are better ways of getting elementary and high school students prepared for college. In January of 1998, Public
Agenda found that 66% of college professors said "elementary and high schools expect students
to learn too little.” At a college level, there are much higher expectations, have higher standards and harder tests than elementary and high school testing.
Standardized tests are nothing new in public schools. For the past few years, scores from statewide tests in English and math have been used to determine which schools are doing a good job of educating students and which are doing a bad job of educating students. Today, the