Imagine that you're at school preparing for a test, but what kind of test? Why is it causing you so much stress? You're teacher tells you it’s a standardized test. You're wondering why you have to take it...
Testing is a grueling task that you or your child have to go through every year but why? States should ban these state tests in order to minimize the amount of stress have weighing down on your shoulders.
When schools prepare for the standardized tests, you are refusing kids the opportunity of to have fun at school such as recess. To make matters worse, the multiple choice format of the tests offers a more adjustable environment for boys as the scoring of multiple choice is like that of a video game. One reason that standardized tests aren’t good, is that the preparation of them is denying kids part of the fun in grade school. As stated in the book “The Case Against Standardized Testing”, the author Alfie Kohn stated, “You deprive kids of recess, eliminate music and the arts, cut back the class meetings and discussions of current events, offer less time to read books for pleasure, squeeze out the field trips and interdisciplinary projects and high-quality electives...” This is showing that testing is stripping kids of the pleasures grade school each year state testing occurs. You can see why standardized testing isn’t good
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In the book “Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It” Peter Sacks states, “The format is also biased toward male students, who studies have shown adapt more easily to the game-like point scoring of multiple-choice questions.” This claim shows that these tests aren’t only deficient, but they may show a higher ranking for boys than girls. Even though standardized tests are unacceptable, they are also more biased toward