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Standardized testing, yet any testing should have no correlation with personal intelligence or an IQ. Mr. Tait I am glad we can agree on that. Not everyone is capable of the same thinking skills but everyone is knowledgeable in their own way. Testing should not be looked at as “one size fits all” for students. These exams, such as SAT or ACT should not determine the success of the test taker. There are many valid points as to why standardize testing is not a beneficial way to measure someones intelligence. Individually students can get worked up over the stress of an exam which can majorly effect them putting the pencil to the test. Now a days students are compared to each other by numbers and whose smarter than who. This is based on the students average or an exam number. “There are also many ‘intelligent’ people, as measured by our schools, who have the historic indicators of intelligence, viz. a quickness of understanding and the ability to perform cognitively at a higher level but are painfully deficient in other aspect” (Tait 9). Standardize testing is not …show more content…

It does not show creativity or how well a person is organized. Testing does not prove how trust worthy or creative the student could be for a job opportunity. Standardize tests treats every student as if they came from the same background with the same education and thinking styles. It treats us as if we are identical. One student can be awful at reading comprehension which could cause them to have low test grades. However, the student could be fantastic at visual learning. What does that have to do with testing? Not everyone learns the same, not every student will be able to test well. Students with learning disabilities may struggle on a test even with special accommodations just because their brain works differently than others. They will work as hard, if not harder and study extra, but still not get that outstanding

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Standardized testing ugh. The absolute worst part of school. Testing is so dreadful because it’s time consuming, forget consuming it’s devouring, teachers and students don’t get the graded test back fast enough, and last but definitely not least students already have to study for classroom test weekly now you want to overload their brains! This why I am against standardize test. These test have a desire to devour classroom time and brain capacity.

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Standardized tests are one of the most popular ways schools attempt to evaluate academic intelligence of students, school districts, and teachers. These tests are used more specifically to evaluate student performance in the education system by testing their abilities in mathematics, english and sciences. By giving every student the same test, they are setting a standard idea for how well every student should score on the test, such as the SAT or the ACT, no matter the school or educational process they are receiving. Allowing every student to take the exact same test, gives the state a way to generalize student’s academic intelligence without having to do much work to make the testing one hundred percent fair. Standardized testing in schools should no longer be required because it discriminates against the less wealthy families, does not effectively measure achievement and becomes a distraction to the student’s learning environment.

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Another issue with using standardized tests is that several students get extremely stressed or nervous about the test. This automatically causes students to perform inadequately on the test. Several people who in any other circumstance would be brilliant at a subject would now earn a poor score as a result of them performing poorly on tests. This is not fair to the people who are exceptionally knowledgeable in a subject and just become stressed easily. This further proves that standardized tests are not an accurate measure of educational quality.

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Standardized testing is a way to determine the potential of the student and the academic achievement. The American students are ranked against others around the world, and the number that America is in is not encouraging. The tests are not fair, and their use is producing a narrow curriculum and this kind of tests only limits the chances of the nation to produce qualified professionals like innovators. Standardized testing does not help the American students because the tests do not give the true potential and the ability of the student. The tests are given to the students to determine how well they have prepared, but this does not portray the true potential of the students.

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Another reason is that these tests don’t value diversity. Standardized testing should not be taken seriously because it can later affect how a student gives all their effort in school work. Standardized tests cause students to really stress during the test. An example from, “ Why Standardized Testing Doesn’t Measure Quality” is “Brain research suggests that too much stress psychologically and physically harmful.” Standardized tests are not useful to the kids with anxiety in which they start choosing faster and wrong.

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Standardized testing generalizes educational achievement and does not consider circumstances or individual student needs”. This creates a whole new topic of bias in standardized testing. As was mentioned previously, the goal of standardized testing is to administer the test to a large population to allow for comparison, however in doing so, standardized tests often do not take into account preexisting learning disabilities or other disorders, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which can definitely have an impact on scores. By not accounting for these individual differences, children with learning disabilities and disorders are forced to believe that their not-so-great performance is due purely to a lack of innate knowledge. This false belief could then lead to the development of a self-fulfilling prophecy where the child will stop trying and receive bad grades in school because of their shattered confidence caused by standardized testing.

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Is Standardized Testing Really on Our Side? Everyone has experienced the stress of having to take a standardized test at least once in their lives. In fact, pre test break downs are now so common, that it has become regulation for test booklets to include instructions for an event where a student might vomit on their booklet. Clearly, there is something wrong with our current way of measuring intelligence if it has gone so far that students and teacher are being unfairly given such and amount of stress and anxiety. Standardized testing is not effective as it doesn't only inaccurately test intelligence and misrepresent student’s potential, but also does more harm to students and society than good.

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The reading passages are three levels above the child's current grade level” (CNN.com). The article from CNN provides a clear example of a parent who is gradually losing trust in standardized testing. My position is not of an expert, but rather of a concerned student who has taken various examinations throughout primary as well as secondary grade levels. Oftentimes after completing my exam, I wondered whether it is fair for students who exhibit a strong interest in writing or painting to take the same test as students who have interests in math or science. Standardized tests are examinations administered to all students in a grade level in a predetermined, standard manner.

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In America, this happens every day. Although many people believe standardized testing is a justified way of measuring intelligence and grading students, a growing number of people in America feel that standardized test taking is biased, inaccurate, and an ineffective way of measuring student intelligence. Some parents

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Standardize test are used to measure academic success in the classroom. They have been used historically to measure and compare performance of individual students. There is a constant push for students to excel and improve on standardize exams which leads to unrealistic goals set by administrations. Standardized test are being used to make a considerable amount of decisions about students for example, grade promotion, and high school graduation. Teachers are being forced to teach testing methods and focus on having their students pass the standardized exams which ultimately, takes away from students learning process.

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As lots would say, “Standardized tests don’t necessarily measure a student’s knowledge and skills.

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Unfortunately, standardized testing only gives a rough estimate of what a student can do or knows. It is impossible to tell if a student will improve, or even tell if the student just guessed on all of their answers for the test. This explains how standardized tests do not measure the correct information that school’s are actually searching

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