Standardized Testing
Anyone who has ever taken any sort of standardized test knows that they can be stressful, costly, time consuming, and can even cause weaknesses in the education system. Standardized tests have been around since the mid 1800s, however, The No Child Left Behind Act passed in 2002 requires students in all 50 states to test annually. There are multiple arguments on whether or not these tests are helpful. The main purpose is to provide all children with an equal opportunity to obtain a quality education. Although there is a lot of emphasis on standardized tests, it can be shown that they are not helping to improve the intelligence of students all throughout America.
Testing is stressful to the superiority of people in today’s world. According to the article Teen People “The most important part of education should be to make sure that kids are filled with the desire to change the world and that comes from passionate teaching and learning, not from test taking” (Teen
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According to Celine Coggins, “The debate on testing is an important one, but debating time devoted to testing without a discussion of test type and content misses the point” (Coggins 23). Time committed to standardized tests, as a matter of fact, might be a more critical controversy than the material included within them. James Popham says, “It has become increasingly apparent during the last decade that many standardized achievement tests are instructionally insensitive; they are unable to discern the differences between students taught effectively and students taught ineffectively” (Popham 5). Students spend hours, days, and years of their education preparing for certain tests even though these tests are not an accurate representation of their intelligence. Schools should reevaluate how they spend their time; less time toward test prep, more time spent towards improving