Arguments Against Standardized Testing
Standardized testing
Standardized testing is good in theory but in reality it is causing many problems. The
United States Government wants to keep the national school systems together but as a result it is making schools much more stressful for everyone and the point of being a teacher completely different than what it used to be. Children’s intelligence should not be determined by a test, nor should it determine a teacher’s skill. This problem has gotten much bigger over time and needs to be brought to more people's attention, as well as other methods to move forward without so much testing.
There has always been people who disagree with standardized testing but once the No Child Left Behind act was put in place things went south. The No child …show more content…
And, crucially, the law had teeth: if a school failed to meet federal benchmarks of progress, it could be sanctioned, reorganized or closed”(Edwards). Because of this, schools and teachers panicked as a reaction and then the students had to take government mandated classes constantly to stay on track and it was just too much.
As some time passed the law lost a lot of supporters and almost immediately schools were falling short and thousands of schools were technically failing(Edwards). Eventually stated started to petition the law because of the flaws and the Federal Government waived the law temporarily on a specific condition that they meet the Government's demands in other ways. There are currently 42 states with temporary conditional waivers. One of the arguments is that the state's test lie and don't really tell the truth about the students intelligence Catherine Gewertz argues that” most states produce much higher proficiency rates on their own tests than they do on the federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress”(Gewertz). In another article I read talks about …show more content…
These are programs that are not only assessments but also software for students to practice math and english. that would be on a computer system that registers every answer from the student(Kamenetz); “The companies that develop this software argue that it presents the opportunity to eliminate the time, cost and anxiety of "stop and test" in favor of passively collecting data on students' knowledge over a semester, year or entire school career”(Kamenetz). When using this method you can monitor how quickly a student can learn, how well they are processing it and other big picture factors. One system has been created called dynamic learning maps. This system creates multiple pathways for students to learn and test what they know. This system find the specific way the child learns and tests them that way “students with severe disabilities “are interested in the same concepts and activities as their gradelevel peers are; they just access them differently”(Heitin). This system sticks with common core but also breaks it down so the pieces all interact together. The point of this tactic is that it gets so much more from the student as opposed to the traditional
Standardized testing is good in theory but in reality it is causing many problems. The
United States Government wants to keep the national school systems together but as a result it is making schools much more stressful for everyone and the point of being a teacher completely different than what it used to be. Children’s intelligence should not be determined by a test, nor should it determine a teacher’s skill. This problem has gotten much bigger over time and needs to be brought to more people's attention, as well as other methods to move forward without so much testing.
There has always been people who disagree with standardized testing but once the No Child Left Behind act was put in place things went south. The No child …show more content…
And, crucially, the law had teeth: if a school failed to meet federal benchmarks of progress, it could be sanctioned, reorganized or closed”(Edwards). Because of this, schools and teachers panicked as a reaction and then the students had to take government mandated classes constantly to stay on track and it was just too much.
As some time passed the law lost a lot of supporters and almost immediately schools were falling short and thousands of schools were technically failing(Edwards). Eventually stated started to petition the law because of the flaws and the Federal Government waived the law temporarily on a specific condition that they meet the Government's demands in other ways. There are currently 42 states with temporary conditional waivers. One of the arguments is that the state's test lie and don't really tell the truth about the students intelligence Catherine Gewertz argues that” most states produce much higher proficiency rates on their own tests than they do on the federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress”(Gewertz). In another article I read talks about …show more content…
These are programs that are not only assessments but also software for students to practice math and english. that would be on a computer system that registers every answer from the student(Kamenetz); “The companies that develop this software argue that it presents the opportunity to eliminate the time, cost and anxiety of "stop and test" in favor of passively collecting data on students' knowledge over a semester, year or entire school career”(Kamenetz). When using this method you can monitor how quickly a student can learn, how well they are processing it and other big picture factors. One system has been created called dynamic learning maps. This system creates multiple pathways for students to learn and test what they know. This system find the specific way the child learns and tests them that way “students with severe disabilities “are interested in the same concepts and activities as their gradelevel peers are; they just access them differently”(Heitin). This system sticks with common core but also breaks it down so the pieces all interact together. The point of this tactic is that it gets so much more from the student as opposed to the traditional