Summary Of Standardized Testing

Students have pressure from their teachers because teachers go through so much pressure from the administrators…etc. The standardizing test is something necessary in our education system for children to take. It removes completely the administrator’s work. Whatever the score that the student gets on one exam, it shapes their entire future based on it. These exams exist for different reasons.; for example, measuring the students’ intelligence, sending students into schools where they are “suppose” to be, so they would not feel less or more than the other students with them. By doing so, we are putting pressure on the students as well as the teacher to do well throughout the whole entire academic year. Some of the parents are wealthy enough to
He focused on elementary grades. The author also argued that English teachers have so much pressure on them because they have to focus their teaching on literacy skills measured on the standardized test. Since reading is more important than writing, teachers spend more time on reading. Usually focusing on comprehensions skills, not on the critical reading skills. Even if the teachers want to teach more, they can’t go beyond the test-based curriculum. James argued that standardized testing also limits the type of writing students so. Many tests consist of multiple choice and short answers questions that do not require students to extended prose. In addition, standardizing tests focus only on specific things and ignore many other qualities are necessary to student success. Another limitation on students is learning from the negative perception that standardized tests can give to students about themselves and their own abilities. The final point that the author argued was, that elementary school students can lose their sense of themselves as capable, or able to do well in school and
It turns students into machines that copy and past information rather than process it. It eliminates the students’ critical skill of thinking. On the other hand, it limits teachers works to only focus on certain areas in their subjects. It puts pressure on the teachers to force the children to get high scores in order for them to keep their work…etc. This type of learning is not healthy for neither the students nor the teachers. As the U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan recently admit that too much standardizing testing was “sucking the oxygen out of the room” and causing “undue