Standardized Testing
Is standardized testing the way to go?
You wake up in the morning belated for the bus because of sleeping late. You arrive in school, forgetting to brush your teeth and comb your hair. When you are confronted with the test, you are so tired and you get a pink eye. The next event you know is that you fail the test. Do you want to fail for just having an inadequate day? Standardized testing may cause you to stay in the same grade just for having an inadequate day, not getting enough sleep, etc. Standardized testing should not be about whether you’re smart or not for the next grade, it should be about if the student is learning or not. I believe that standardized testing should not be used to promote student to the next grade only if they accomplish a score of 225 or above. Due to the fact that a standardized test is mostly on language arts and math; some people may not focus on science and social studies. Science and social studies are essential subjects in schools and are needed throughout your life. Social studies are important because it teaches about geography, different cultures and history from the past. Social studies also teach students how to be well-informed, critically thinking adults of their world. On the other hand, science is also very important because that’s what makes us human. Science teaches the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and life sciences. It builds up wealth of knowledge, info and data. It solves many questions of life like how does it work, why is it happening and what if. Science and social studies are not subjects that students should avoid because they are very important in many different ways. By not focusing and concentrating on these subjects, you are losing half of your studies. One example of this is if he or she wants to be a scientist, they will have to focus on that subject and show a lot of interest, because you can’t just read it and automatically get it. On the other hand, they have to study hard to get a
You wake up in the morning belated for the bus because of sleeping late. You arrive in school, forgetting to brush your teeth and comb your hair. When you are confronted with the test, you are so tired and you get a pink eye. The next event you know is that you fail the test. Do you want to fail for just having an inadequate day? Standardized testing may cause you to stay in the same grade just for having an inadequate day, not getting enough sleep, etc. Standardized testing should not be about whether you’re smart or not for the next grade, it should be about if the student is learning or not. I believe that standardized testing should not be used to promote student to the next grade only if they accomplish a score of 225 or above. Due to the fact that a standardized test is mostly on language arts and math; some people may not focus on science and social studies. Science and social studies are essential subjects in schools and are needed throughout your life. Social studies are important because it teaches about geography, different cultures and history from the past. Social studies also teach students how to be well-informed, critically thinking adults of their world. On the other hand, science is also very important because that’s what makes us human. Science teaches the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and life sciences. It builds up wealth of knowledge, info and data. It solves many questions of life like how does it work, why is it happening and what if. Science and social studies are not subjects that students should avoid because they are very important in many different ways. By not focusing and concentrating on these subjects, you are losing half of your studies. One example of this is if he or she wants to be a scientist, they will have to focus on that subject and show a lot of interest, because you can’t just read it and automatically get it. On the other hand, they have to study hard to get a