High-stakes testing

How would you feel if you went to school for four years too specialize in a the field of profession in which you want to work and then somebody who has never done your job tries to tell you tell you how to do it? Pretty annoying right? Then you get punished for not doing well with something when it's not what you were taught to do; that is what happening to a bunch of our teachers in this country due to the common core standards movement. The common core standards movement has become the…

After reading this informative chapter, I still believe that high-stakes testing is a disservice to many students, and teachers, not politicians, should make decisions about assessments. Teachers are responsible for educating our youth, so they should be the ones who determine whether or not students understand the curriculum. Crawford begins by comparing the differing views of those in favor of bilingual education and supporters of English-only instruction. Bilingual educators have long had…

The Effects of Standardized Testing in Education Standardized testing is not a reasonable measurement of student comprehension. The material that students should be learning has been manipulated into a score rather than knowledge of the material. Education itself is now solely based off of tests and not if the students know the material or even know skills that will help them out of school. The school system is no longer teaching students, they are only providing students with enough…

speech and persuading my audience is for me to show you the dark side of standardized testing and why it may hurt a lot of students rather than helping them. I will try my best to get my listeners to join my side on this argument. Thesis Statement: There are plenty of positive and negative aspects of standardized testing but to truly determine this argument you need to learn more about the history of standardized testing, how it impacts the students and how it impacts the school districts.…

research from the Alliance for Childhood showed "time for play in most public kindergartens has dwindled to the vanishing point, replaced by lengthy lessons and standardized testing” (Miller and Almon). A three-year study completed in Oct. 2010 by the Gesell Institute of Human Development showed that increased emphasis on testing is making "children feel like failures now as early as PreK..." (Gesell Institute). Children especially at that age need time away from the classroom to play and gain…

1.6 million students sat down and took the dreaded ACT in the year 2013. Of those 1.6 million at least a few questioned the origin and reason of a four-and-a-half-hour test. (NYT) The answer is simple. The first record of standardized tests came from China to test knowledge on “Confucian philosophy and poetry.”() It was introduced in the Western world as a result of the Industrial Revolution and the increased number of children coming into the schools. ()For almost every student in the 1.6…

Standardized Testing Albert Einstein once smartly enlightened, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish for its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it’s stupid” (qtd. in Pettigrew). Every individual learns in his or her own way and holds genius talents that are unique to them. That being said, it is unfortunate that our society would judge each child, adolescent, or adult by the same national standards through standardized testing. Each student has a…

Standardized Testing: All Guess and no Check “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela’s words ring clear and true; the importance of education is obvious to all. That is exactly why it is such a highly contested issue in the contexts of politics, schools, and homes all across the nation. Only a few weeks ago, President Obama passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, a massive comprehensive education reform that serves to ensure a proper…

Are Standardized Test Beneficial To Anyone? Are students failing the test, or are the tests failing the students? In the year 1991 an average high school student took an averaged of anywhere from eighteen to twenty-one standardized test throughout the course of their academic career. I can only imagine that those numbers and the stakes associated with the test have increased since then. We rely on test to tell us so much information, but is that test doing students any good? Personally I don’t…

determined by how well or poorly I perform on a test. However, there are many students, some barely starting their schooling, and some who graduate from college in less than four months, who would disagree with me. These students might believe that a high stakes test will define their worth and value to society. The Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (2012-2015) believes that student success should not be based on the results of a single test, but…