The “No Child Left Behind” act was signed into existence by President George W. Bush in January of 2002. This act brought the waves of standardized testing that primary and secondary education school students of today take. With the goal of providing a better America for the day of tomorrow in regards to our education system, it is not as clear any more when all that is done at school is test preparation. This paper will go into detail on how standardized testing does more harm than what the actual benefits are. From the words of professors themselves, this paper will describe how standardized testing impacts the learning environment of the students in a negative way. Subjects such as Art, Robotics, linguistic Arts and many more state mandated
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This test preparation leads to stress among students which results into lack of interest, lack of learning and self development. Students are now forced to prepare for an exam by practicing before hand questions, just to get a passing grade that can determine if they they are prepared to go on to the next level without actually learning the structure of that certain material. According to a testing scholar by the name of Richard P. Phelps, conducted a testing research that concludes that 93% of studies on student testing, including standardized testing, found a positive effect on students passing. It is a too early judgment to conclude that standardized testing is doing a good to the students as of today. In response to those test taking research reports, The Washington Post, Tim Walker and Andrew J Colson, mentioned how the U.S went from being number 18 in the world in Math on the program for international student assessment to being number 31. This change occurred in 2009, which is after the No Child Left Behind Act was set into motion. All in all, these researchers and journalists concluded that standardized testing has not improved student achievements. It is important to pass your grades and go on to the next course, but it is only being counter productive and counter-effective if the student did not learn anything and or achieving actual knowledge …show more content…
Schools can also be rewarded due to test scores and are given higher education funds so that the school can use and spend. This brings other schools into rivalry which all go after obtaining the highest education grades for their students. Because all schools want to obtain higher grades in order to obtain more funds, many schools have been caught and suspected to cheat the system for their own gain. This is a problem that was no present before standardized testing was the norm. Clearly, many schools are loosing important qualities such as integrity and honesty, what’s to say that students will achieve and gain knowledge when all the school is after is obtaining a higher fund by any means. USA Today investigated six states in 2011 and Washington DC found 1,160 suspicious anomalies in test score gains year after year. An outside analyst and researcher also uncovered and revealed 191 teachers in 70 Washington DC public schools were “implicated in possible testing infractions” in 2009. They also found how nearly all teachers at an elementary school in Washington DC had students whose test papers showed high numbers of wrong-to-right erasures. This clearly shows a problem and at the same time a broken area in the education system that is
This test preparation leads to stress among students which results into lack of interest, lack of learning and self development. Students are now forced to prepare for an exam by practicing before hand questions, just to get a passing grade that can determine if they they are prepared to go on to the next level without actually learning the structure of that certain material. According to a testing scholar by the name of Richard P. Phelps, conducted a testing research that concludes that 93% of studies on student testing, including standardized testing, found a positive effect on students passing. It is a too early judgment to conclude that standardized testing is doing a good to the students as of today. In response to those test taking research reports, The Washington Post, Tim Walker and Andrew J Colson, mentioned how the U.S went from being number 18 in the world in Math on the program for international student assessment to being number 31. This change occurred in 2009, which is after the No Child Left Behind Act was set into motion. All in all, these researchers and journalists concluded that standardized testing has not improved student achievements. It is important to pass your grades and go on to the next course, but it is only being counter productive and counter-effective if the student did not learn anything and or achieving actual knowledge …show more content…
Schools can also be rewarded due to test scores and are given higher education funds so that the school can use and spend. This brings other schools into rivalry which all go after obtaining the highest education grades for their students. Because all schools want to obtain higher grades in order to obtain more funds, many schools have been caught and suspected to cheat the system for their own gain. This is a problem that was no present before standardized testing was the norm. Clearly, many schools are loosing important qualities such as integrity and honesty, what’s to say that students will achieve and gain knowledge when all the school is after is obtaining a higher fund by any means. USA Today investigated six states in 2011 and Washington DC found 1,160 suspicious anomalies in test score gains year after year. An outside analyst and researcher also uncovered and revealed 191 teachers in 70 Washington DC public schools were “implicated in possible testing infractions” in 2009. They also found how nearly all teachers at an elementary school in Washington DC had students whose test papers showed high numbers of wrong-to-right erasures. This clearly shows a problem and at the same time a broken area in the education system that is