Standardized Testing: Are they Beneficial? .
Standardized testing is very common statewide for determining the students" academic knowledge starting form K-12 grade. But what does these score tells us? Are they academically smart because they have high score? Or what if the student maintains good grades working hard in school but receive bad scores on these tests? There are many ambiguous answers to these questions. Standardized testing is bias based on minorities and financially separates the advantage student from higher-income families to score higher than lower income families. These testing also drive excellent teachers away from their profession. However, the question still remains: what does these results tell us how kids are learning?.
There is a great improvement of students with their scores but there is still a big barrier between minority student such as Latinos and blacks with white students. According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. In comparison, white student's score jumped 11 points for verbal and 18 points higher in math during the same time interval. This statistic shows that white high school seniors score much higher than any ethnic group than they did decades ago. This shows a large gap between the minorities. Part of the reason is due to cultural and language barrier that these students face. Referring to the journal Tests that Fail Democracy, minority students tend not to do as well "because they aren't given the time they need to process information, write essays, and unravel foreign culture they are being asked to identify." These conflicts lead the students to be discouraged to take these tests that lead a big rate of dropout for minorities. Texas has the rising "dropout rates especially among black and Hispanic students.
There are many different types of standardized tests, the most common are SAT, Scholastic Aptitude Test, and ACT, American College Testing. Numerous Students and teachers dread standardized test. ... Standardized test are biased. ... There are uses of standardized achievement tests that I regard as acceptable. ... Take the pressure off; do not make standardized tests high-stakes tests. ...
Is standardized testing the best way to test? ... I feel that standardized testing is not the best way to test because they do not prove how smart an individual is. ... Roberts and asked her a few questions about how she felt about standardized testing. ... " Standardized testing I feel is biased based upon one's culture. ... Standardized tests tend to narrow the curriculum to what will be tested. ...
Standardized Testing Since the 1920's when "intelligence tests" were introduced through the 1960's when the development of aggregated data on student achievement began standardized testing has played an important role in U.S education. ... Peter Sacks of Fair Test, a popular organization against standardized testing, was quoted saying, "How has the standardized testing paradigm managed to remain entrenched, despite the many criticisms against it? ... We are a nation of standardized-testing junkies." ... Basically, what that means, is standardized tests along with other tests ends up...
"Urban graduation scam needs to be addressed" Standardized testing is a very controversial topic among education administrators. Some feel that these tests are a good way to compare students city, state, and nation wide. While others feel that these tests are created unfairly and that they place too much pressure on teachers to "teach the test". ... This article has taken another look at state develop tests. ... Education needs standardized tests, but standardized tests need more work....
Standardized testing "No issue in the U.S. Education is more controversial than (standardized) testing. ... Such understanding reduces the need for currently used standardized tests. ... The American people have consistently advocated greater use of standardized student testing, and more states now than even administer standardized tests on a regular basis. ... The basic argument made by those in opposition to standardized testing is that standardized tests are counterproductive. ...
One problem that I think had the most impact on my educational career was the amount of standardized tests given. ... These standardized tests are also reliable. ... The main reason that a good objective, standardized test is fairer than a good performance test is that, for a test of reasonable length, a good standardized test can probe a much larger and more representative sample of the subject (domain) being sampled. ... If a content (knowledge) domain is being tested, then a good standardized test can sample a bigger portion of the whole domain than can a performance test which takes the s...
Throughout history the Public School System never made it mandatory to have their students take national standardized test. ... This is exactly how these standardized tests should be used, as a basis. ... There are a vast amount of ways for a student's progress to be assessed in a classroom with standardized testing being just one of the procedures. ... (Davey, Neill) What we should be doing is not so much looking at the standardized test but look at the system and students that we are testing. These standardized tests although not without faults, can be highly effective in improving the...
Public concern has caused political campaigns to discuss standardized testing policies in recent years. According to Orfield and Wald, public interest leaders feel that citizens want to hold the school systems accountable for the inequality of standardized tests, which are causing some educational advocates to show concern that some teachers will lower their standards so students scores will improve. ... Moreover, many teacher and principal's salaries rely on standardized tests, which may have the effect of many high poverty schools wanting to hire uncertified and inexperienced teacher...
Standardized Testing Are standardized tests failing our children? ... With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, critics of standardized tests lament that teachers are now being compelled to do just that. The temptation to teach students to do well on standardized tests is almost unavoidable when performance on such tests is how entire school systems are evaluated. ... She has been studying standardized testing in Texas and she claims that while test scores have been climbing, the quality of education has actually worsened. ... In conclusion, standardized testing, in t...
