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How Standardized Tests are Ineffective and Time Consuming

Your sitting in your classroom while your teacher is passing out your ISTEP tests. Even though you have spent many hours preparing for this, the person next to you starts having a nervous breakdown. There are two sides to the debatable effectiveness of Standardized Tests, people for it, and people against it. I am on the side against the ST’s, as I will now call them. I am on this side because they are inaccurate, bad for public schools, time consuming, and other factors. In the following paragraph I will explain how much valuable time these tests take up. The amount of tests taken in grades K-12, on average, is 112 tests. Overall, these tests take up to 2.3% of class time. Some …show more content…

The ST’s are a base for funding. The 2002 law, “No Child Left Behind” states that schools that don’t show growth get penalized. This is not good for small schools that don’t have enough room for growing. If they don’t get the much needed funding, how can they be expected to grow? They need the money to pay for better education or tutors. More populated schools that are in big cities have students that can pay for a tutor if they feel that they are falling behind in class. In the smaller or poorer schools can’t do that because nor the families or the school has enough money to pay for the tutors. This shows that the Standardized Tests are bad for small schools and …show more content…

The tests don’t take into consideration the fact that some kids don’t have it as good as others. Some kids might not want to try hard on the tests because they are too busy wondering where their next meal will come from. Based on a PISA test taken by 6,100 students, shows that the U.S wasn’t doing as good as we used to be. We dropped a few places on math but remained about the same in reading. The students that took this test could of been chosen randomly, and if they were, then they could of took a few students that are below the poverty line. If we are going to get back to the top of the list of “smartest” countries, then we need to fix the poverty

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The tests are graded by a special machine that is not programmed to favor some students and not others. Yes, the tests are being graded non-discriminately but, this causes some concern for whether or not the tests are being graded accurately. Technology has been known to fail some times. The machines are very sensitive and the answers have to be filled in clearly and in a certain way or they will be counted wrong. Some students may know the answer but mark it wrong and their score will go down unfairly.

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These standardized tests are severely damaging the educational system. There is an extremely high budget, and high stakes achievement that rides on your test scores. Although all states use some form of standardized testing, the testing proves to be inefficient, and should be eliminated. As stated above standardized testing proves to be very stressful on the test takers.

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These questions have never appeared to them in their entire year while schooling and anxiety overcomes them. they answer random questions because they refuse to care anymore about the test, and three months later they receive their scores and they become distraught over them and think they are dumb. Standardized testing is completely useless

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Math may not be the best subject but I know we can do better. Seriously 65 countries take this test and 29 did better then us. The poverty gaps are not being addressed to help U.s students. I understand that some tests have different data and results, but only if a handful kids try and rest fail then this country will not get better.

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Standardized testing does not measure students’ academic abilities In the beginning of standardized testing, students were set up to fail. They were skewed and not in some people’s favor. For example, on the tests there was questions that only white middle aged people would know, immigrants with little or no English would not compare to an average white middle aged person taking the test.

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Us students slipped from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st place in 2009 (Procon.org) Similar decline for science and reading. This shows how Standardized Testing has not helped us in our

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Expensive SAT books and preparation courses with private tutors are a good indicator of inequality in our education system. But in the meantime, these tests provide accurate comparisons between different sub-groups. The sub-groups provide schools with data on socioeconomic status to develop better programs that will help improve their scores. Unfortunately educational inequality exists everywhere and some kids go to private schools, while others don’t have enough money to buy books. But only standardized testing can help these students who are in need, by developing services directed at improving their

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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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Standardized testing takes 16 hours away from kids in 6-8th grades, 15 hours away from kids in 3-5 grades. 14 days are given to preparing for state-mandated exams, and 12 days preparing for district mandated exams now that takes time away from other classes to the point where it will affect your grade. For iowa assessments, a state mandated test, we lose 3 days of language arts, 3 days of math, 1 day of science, and 1 day for social studies that takes time away for working. Like in language arts we are writing a paper and due to Iowa assessments we do not have enough time to proficiently finish the paper. Another state mandated test, called Measures of Academic progress (MAP) we get an alternative schedule which cuts out exploratories.

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Have you ever wondered, are the standardized tests helping my child, is it helping them learn? The articles from procon say that standardized tests are not helping the students, or even the teachers. One reason, that I believe that the standardized tests are not helping are because, it will lead to disappointment, and that they are just a waste of time. A social science teacher at Hillsdale High School states,”The common core is at risk for failure, not because the standards are bad per se,but because with standardized accountability, we again won’t get a real picture of achievement, people will be disappointed, and the standards and testing will run their course” Also, Carolyn J Heinrich, PhD, states,”There are little to no positive effect of these [test-based accountability] systems overall on the student learning and educational progress, and there is widespread teaching to the test and…..

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Even people's emotional states would impact the way they score. Furthermore, standardized tests only look at a small portion of the education system. Many parents are willing to pay large sums in order to ensure that their child/children attend better schools. This may result in an influx of wealthy or more educated people into one area; creating inequality as the “good” only gets

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But these conclusions are not always fair. There are several factors, including race and wealth, that impact a child’s test score on standardized tests. They may not do so well, and consequences are being splashed on the teachers as a result. Standardized tests are an educational problem that must be changed before the tests take their

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