Standardized Testing Argumentative Essay
A highly debated topic over the last decade has been about the use of standardized testing. Some people feel like standardized testing is a good way to measure a student's learning, and teaching ability of teachers. There are two acts passed by congress that requires standardized testing, but both have flaws. Standardized testing does give data and numbers to a student's progress, and is very accurate when calculating these numbers as well. The question people have to consider is if standardized testing is really best for the kids. It puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on the kids. Standardized testing is very expensive, and not worth it. There are different ways to put what the kids learned that year into numbers like standardized testing
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The school I attend which is New Bloomfield High School; there are a lot of kids who are very stressed, and stay up for hours in the night studying . Standardized testing isn't only disliked by the students. Teachers also don't think that standardized testing is appropriate for kids. A survey taken in 2015 by 1500 NEA members said that %70 percent of educators don't think standardized testing is developmentally appropriate(walker). Most of these teachers believe that standardized tests based on a narrowly prescribed curriculum and linked to specific grade levels are not a good way to judge student or teacher success(walker). Not only that, but there are standardized tests that if you don't pass then you don't graduate. States such as Alabama ,Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia all require the exit exam to graduate(wildavsky). The state I live in requires every student to pass the constitution exam with a %70 percent or higher or you can graduate. That is a lot of pressure to put on kids; the fact of if you don't pass a test then you can't graduate. All this pressure and stress the government is putting on the students is unnecessary. There are other ways to measure what a kid has learned during the school year that involve less hair pulling and
The school I attend which is New Bloomfield High School; there are a lot of kids who are very stressed, and stay up for hours in the night studying . Standardized testing isn't only disliked by the students. Teachers also don't think that standardized testing is appropriate for kids. A survey taken in 2015 by 1500 NEA members said that %70 percent of educators don't think standardized testing is developmentally appropriate(walker). Most of these teachers believe that standardized tests based on a narrowly prescribed curriculum and linked to specific grade levels are not a good way to judge student or teacher success(walker). Not only that, but there are standardized tests that if you don't pass then you don't graduate. States such as Alabama ,Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia all require the exit exam to graduate(wildavsky). The state I live in requires every student to pass the constitution exam with a %70 percent or higher or you can graduate. That is a lot of pressure to put on kids; the fact of if you don't pass a test then you can't graduate. All this pressure and stress the government is putting on the students is unnecessary. There are other ways to measure what a kid has learned during the school year that involve less hair pulling and