Should schools use standardized testing to determine student achievement? Students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade combined take about 113 mandated tests annually (Strauss). This staggering statistic has led to the debate on whether standardized testing should be used by school districts across the United States to determine student achievement. As a result of this onslaught of tests to the rising generation of students, it has led to an uproar of angry parents, students, and even educators
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What’s the purpose in standardized testing? Well the purpose is to create objectives students to accomplish and to test their knowledge. It is mainly to detect if students have prepared themselves and prove that they have learned what they are taught in school. Teachers are pressured students to learn more so that the skill a student learned can be shown in standardized testing. It also determines the credits a student can earn and the courses they can take. This can show if a student is eligible
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twenty-five states require standardized testing from age 8 to 16. The stress and anxiety can be too much for children to handle. Standardized tests should not be given and people should be more aware of the children who can't move on to the next grade from failing it. This is a very big problem, and it is so stressful to have kids take a test on something that cannot define who a they are as an individual. STAAR Testing is one of the many names of these standardized tests (TAKS, TABS, TAAS.) Each
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Standardized tests have been talked about for years, with students scores used unfairly to judge the kids and their schools, teachers, principals, districts and even the state. Some parents and educators are looking for other options that better benefit the students. The president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Dr. Madeloni explained that, “[High stakes testing] is destructive to our students and our teachers and the very possibility of joyful and meaningful public education” (Zernike)
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Brooke Potes English 11 October 24, 2015 Mrs. Robach Standardized Tests Standardized tests are used to determine someone’s entire future. They are used all around the United States to determine teacher and administrator pay, label schools as passing or failing, and most importantly, as college admissions tests, like the SAT and ACT. Are these tests really accurate? Many people say yes while others strongly disagree. Standardized tests are not a fair way to test students and should not be used to
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Standardized testing has been a part of student life in America for more than 50 years now, and it’s no surprise that they’re more pressure-packed than ever before. The SAT and ACT are by far the most popular standardized tests today and have become one of the largest determining factors in the college-admissions process. The SAT, or the Scholastic Aptitude Test, came first, founded in 1926 by the College Board. The original test lasted 90 minutes and was made up of 315 questions that tested the
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to be used, and should be abandoned.” That’s what the creator of standardized tests Alfred Binet stated about the tests after seeing how they affect people. Standardized tests have shown little learning progress of the last couple years, they do not show what is actually important in a person, and they unfairly rank teachers. Over the past few years standardized tests have shown little learning progress. Even though standardized tests claim to study the way students learn they actually do not.
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Standardized testing has been used as a benchmark for schools since the 1800s, but really didn’t ramp up until the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act back in 2002. The government likes to butt in anyway that they can, and it is apparent in the use of standardized tests. Through the use of these tests they are regulating our education system to fit their own political agenda, imbuing our youth with propaganda. Instead of teachers teaching to inform students and help improve the next generation
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Standardized tests like the SATs and the ACTs or other national and state exams are supposed to measure the student’s abilities and what they learned during the year, but are passing score limits measuring how good students did during the school year? To have an average grade in a class a student needs a C, yet on the end of year test a student can get an F and still pass. To me that’s not measuring what a student has learned and accomplished during the school year, if they can barely pass the test
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These tests have affected today’s students. Standardized tests have been around for a long time and have not shown any improvement. Standardized tests are a waste of money because billions of dollars are spent on it. The tests have unreachable goals for the kids and they have gotten rid of some classes that aren't on the test. During the tests they put all the students in one room and expect every kid in the room to be silent and not talk for multiple days. The younger kids have a hard time since
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