Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing
Standardize no more
Standardized testing is currently required for almost all colleges in the around the United States. It’s been this way as early as the mid 1800’s, but it has recently become a big controversy among colleges. Colleges should not require students to take standardized test in order to be admitted.
Standardized test put so much added stress on teens. Teens have so much on their plates as it is with all the extra-curricular activities needed to make a noble college resume. Teen stress levels, depression and suicide rates are at an all-time high. In fact, about one in five high school students can be classified with clinical depression. High school, to most students is no longer considered “the time of their lives.” Students …show more content…
Why should one test be equally as valuable as ones overall GPA? Standardized testing does not determine ones knowledge, understanding, accomplishments, or worth ethics. It only measures a small amount of information learned being taught in high school. How would you feel if you worked hard to maintain a good GPA all four year of high school and then made a not so good score on a college placement test? Living proof of this testimony is John Doe, a straight A student since the first grade, but when John took the SAT he scored barely above average. On the science portion of the ACT it determines nothing about how much science you’ve learned. All the information you need to know is found within the content of the page. What it really is testing you on is how well you read a graph or a testimony of a scientist. Similar to this, the reading portion on the ACT it asks you to read a paragraph and answer questions about the section. All it tests on is your reading comprehension. Never once does it ask you to form your own thoughts or higher levels of thinking. Never does it ask what you thought of the ending of the The Great Gatsby, your views on the hero in Catcher in the Rye. These standardized tests measuring very little of what is being taught in the class
Standardized testing is currently required for almost all colleges in the around the United States. It’s been this way as early as the mid 1800’s, but it has recently become a big controversy among colleges. Colleges should not require students to take standardized test in order to be admitted.
Standardized test put so much added stress on teens. Teens have so much on their plates as it is with all the extra-curricular activities needed to make a noble college resume. Teen stress levels, depression and suicide rates are at an all-time high. In fact, about one in five high school students can be classified with clinical depression. High school, to most students is no longer considered “the time of their lives.” Students …show more content…
Why should one test be equally as valuable as ones overall GPA? Standardized testing does not determine ones knowledge, understanding, accomplishments, or worth ethics. It only measures a small amount of information learned being taught in high school. How would you feel if you worked hard to maintain a good GPA all four year of high school and then made a not so good score on a college placement test? Living proof of this testimony is John Doe, a straight A student since the first grade, but when John took the SAT he scored barely above average. On the science portion of the ACT it determines nothing about how much science you’ve learned. All the information you need to know is found within the content of the page. What it really is testing you on is how well you read a graph or a testimony of a scientist. Similar to this, the reading portion on the ACT it asks you to read a paragraph and answer questions about the section. All it tests on is your reading comprehension. Never once does it ask you to form your own thoughts or higher levels of thinking. Never does it ask what you thought of the ending of the The Great Gatsby, your views on the hero in Catcher in the Rye. These standardized tests measuring very little of what is being taught in the class