...High-stakes standardized testing can be a blessing and a curse, but the issue we are prompted with is should it be required in every class at Monett High School. Both pro and con side of the argument propose evidence as to why their side is considered correct and should be put into action. In the case of Monett High School I find that standardized testing would cause grades to drop while the assignments given would be completed with soaring averages. With information pointing to the failure of these tests not fully assessing whether or not the student learned the topic at hand, the topic of whether the test is reliable based on student’s mental condition, and improving the faster knowledge of comprehension ability or other things alike. We...
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...fantastic guessers and get an amazing score. Does this truly measure the success that students can achieve in today's world with one simple test score that admits him/her into college or advance him/her to the next grade. Although multiple people believe standardized testing effectively measures student achievement, I believe that standardized tests can not measure how well a student will succeed at the next level in life. The main reason why standardized testing is emphasized in all the schools across the country is the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This act was made to revamp the Elementary and Secondary Act passed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The NCLB act increases the role of the federal government in guaranteeing the quality of public education for all children in the United States. The major change in the schools that ct...
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...Standardized testing was drastically changed in The United States in 2002 when congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act. Standardized testing has now become a normal and crucial part of a child’s academic agenda in the United States. The big debate is whether or not standardized testing really increases educational achievement. One way to simply answer this is just by looking at the correlation of high achieving educational countries and the amount of standardized testing incorporated into their educational systems. Asian and European countries are among some of the highest academically successful countries in the world. What is one thing in common among these Asian and European countries-- their high use of standardized testing. Although the use of standardized testing can increase the chances of academic achievement it can also come with some negative attributes. With standardized testing you lose creativity and critical thought processing. Students are being trained to answer what they believe the creator of the test believes is the right answer not what the student actually believes to be the right answer. Students are also taught to believe that there is only one right answer and that answer is either A,B,C, or D. According to Ron Maggiano “The overemphasis on testing has...
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...Children are always considered as the future of the world. They are the priorities and need much care. On their way to success, education plays a vital role to lead them. However, it is controversial that whether standardized testing helps and improves the education. There are both social and personal reasons for the debate that the test may impact students’ confidence and narrow teachers’ instruction curriculum. To begin with, the standardized testing becomes a part of U.S. education since mid-1800s, and it becomes a debatable topic when president Bush first introduced the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2002. The act aimed to create a standardized statewide-test for students to measure the achievements and ensure every student has met the standard. However, critics indicate that the act is hurting education by emphasizing standardized tests too much (Jost, 2010). Students and schools are unfairly labeled as underperforming while the government was not providing help to improve. Over ten...
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...Standardized Testing Defining an individual’s ability and a school’s worth because of standardized testing is nonsensical and erroneous. However, this is what goes on every year nation wide since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in 2001. The data has come in and it can be clearly read that standardized tests do not work. These tests are holding some children back and have let the United States slip behind in education compared to the rest of the world. The biggest counter argument being that standardized testing takes objectivity out of student results. Standardized tests are an antiquated idea that has hurt more than helped. The No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law 2001 by then President George W. Bush. The Act...
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...Standardized tests measure the knowledge and/or skills of a students. In the test there are many multiple choice and some short answer questions in math and science. In today's society, standardized testing has been a highly debated and well-argued subject among people. While some believe that standardized testing is necessary for cultural advancement, others believe that there is too much emphasis on the standardized test scores. Standardized testing has not improved student achievement, Studies show that standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance and they measure only a small portion of what makes education meaningful. In classrooms all over the nation, students take this standardized test, and teachers expect a positive result, but this is not one of those situations. Standardized testing has not been proven to improve student achievement in classrooms. An example for this is, the National Research Council report found no evidence that are test-based incentive programs are...
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... agrees standardized testing is best to measure a students “educational goals.” (Walberg 1) Truly, in the results of testing haven’t done this. “The scores don’t provide very much useful information for evaluating a student's achievement” (Harris “and others” 1) Scores from a standardized test don’t measure a student achievement. Schools now don’t care about a student’s achievement due to standardized tests. According to Phillip Harris, arguing that standardized test does a “poor job” with measuring student's achievement. In addition Richard Rothstein, an education economist stated ‘Measurement of student achievement is complex-too complex for social science presently available.’ (Harris “and others” 1) These methods include standardized testing. Rothstein statement was made in 1998. More than a decade later, there is no easier way to evaluate student achievement. The great amount of testing that happens in public schools makes the scores on test carry the weight and schools depend on the number. Reducing the...
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...was required by my high school, and it was a horrific, four hour long test that I was unfamiliar with. Standardized tests, like the ACT, should be highly revised, if not abolished, due to its inefficient measurement of skill, high levels of stress caused to the students, and its unfairness. Although there are many reasons as to why the ACT is not a reliable test, there are some good qualities it has. The main one is its objectivity: “they are given under nearly identical testing conditions, and are graded by a machine” (Bless). This gives the test some credibility, but in reality, the questions are quite unfair because “objectivity” is different for...
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...Standardized tests are intended to measure a student’s intellectual capacity, yet do they truly do so? Do they accurately measure a student’s intelligence, or do they only show a person’s memory capacity? Standardized tests are an epidemic, overtaking the school curriculum, putting an indescribable pressure on the students to meet the expectations set by these tests. Standardized tests corrupt and destroy education, in the way that they target three subjects, deeming the others as ‘unimportant’ and useless. Therefore, standardized tests should be abolished from Texas, on account that they neglect supposedly ‘unimportant’ subjects and limit the horizon for learning. Standardized tests, such as the STAAR, focus on English, math, and science,...
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...Is standardized testing an accurate way to measure student success in the classroom? This seems to be the biggest question when it comes to understanding the issue behind standardized testing today. Some people, like Dr. Gail Goss, believe that “such testing gives the teacher important diagnostic information about what each child is learning in relation to what he has been taught”, while comparing that student to others all over the country. However, some leaders in education, like President of Hampshire College Jonathan Lash, believe that standardized testing in no way shows the true success of a student because it simply “reduce[s] education to the outcomes of a test, [and makes] the only incentive for schools and students to innovate in...
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...Standardized testing is a topic that everybody knows all too well because we all have had to experience some form of a standardized test. The two most common and popular of these tests are the ACT and the SAT. Depending in which region you live in, you will take one of those test during your educational career. But, does taking that test really decide how smart you actually are. Eleven years of schooling and one of those tests will decide what college you go to and what you will do for the rest of your life. People have all different types of talents and these test favor the people who are good at school but, what about the kids who are good musicians or good athletes? Why should a test decide how smart they are when the activities that those kids are exceeding in, aren’t on...
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...entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized test”. Consequently, many believe that Standardized testing doesn't measure the big picture such as a problem solving, critical thinking and perseverance. Additionally, many feel that standardized testing brings test anxiety, and puts great pressure on schools to perform at unattainable levels. On the contrary, some believe that standardized testing holds great value and can be useful...
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...As a high school graduate, I’ve had my fair share of standardized tests. However, I also have younger siblings in both elementary and middle schools. As they’ve gotten older, I’ve taken notice in the increase of state testing they have to go through. They’re tested far more than I ever was as a kid. In her NPR article titled “What Schools Could Use Instead Of Standardized Tests”, Anya Kamenetz, an author, discusses the overuse of standardized testing and possible alternatives for them. Kamenetz mentions that there has been discussion of cutting back on state requirements for testing by parents in different communities. The Council of Chief State School Officer and some of the largest school districts have also made demands of reform. I personally believe that standardized testing is a waste and it cuts the time students get in terms of actual education and learning. In addition, these tests cause unnecessary anxiety among the student who take them....
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...High-stakes standardized testing can be a blessing and a curse, but the issue we are prompted with is should it be required in every class at Monett High School. Both pro and con side of the argument propose evidence as to why their side is considered correct and should be put into action. In the case of Monett High School I find that standardized testing would cause grades to drop while the assignments given would be completed with soaring averages. With information pointing to the failure of these tests not fully assessing whether or not the student learned the topic at hand, the topic of whether the test is reliable based on student’s mental condition, and improving the faster knowledge of comprehension ability or other things alike. We can find that there are two different sides to standardized testing, but would it really benefit Monett High School? Primarily, what should be the main focus of students attending Monett High School is their progression of...
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...Standardized Testing: Is it hurting or helping today’s students Since the beginning of the modern education system, children have been tested to determine how well they knew the material that was being taught. Testing has always been the fail-proof way to see how the teaching strategy was working. Recently, standardized testing has been put into place as a way for federal government to see how the schools are performing. There has been a lot of controversy on this topic, whether or not standardized testing is correct way to determine how a school is performing. This testing is called high-stakes testing; both educators and parents are fed up with this system. High-stakes testing should be removed from the schools systems. In 2001, the Bush...
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