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Standardized testing has become a big part of students’ lives in the United States in every states(excluding 5 of them). Ever since the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, students starting from grades 3 until 8 are required to take a reading and math standardized test. According to the Huffington Post, $1.7 billion are spent every year to fund these tests. This is a large sum of money spent on testing, testing that is very disadvantageous. Standardized testing creates stress for everyone, students, teacher, and parents. The last thing any student want to feel before taking an exam is stress, a great deal of it. As I students myself, I know how it feels when my teachers pass out the booklets and bubble sheets. The only thing on my mind would be questions about how I would perform on this test, making it very hard to read each question and answer it to the best of my abilities. Because the standardized test is very important, students are pressure to perform well on them. This pressure to perform …show more content…

Before the No Child Left Behind Act was passed, America was ranked 15 is reading and 17 in math. That was in 2000. After 7 years of standardized testing, America ranking hasn't improved, instead, it dropped. In 2009, America's reading rank dropped to a 17 while the math rank plundered down to 31. In the 2012 PISA, America still hasn't improved. There was decrease of 7 positions in reading and a decrease of 5 positions in math. If you compare the 2000 rank to 2012 rank, 15 to 24 and 17 to 36, the gap between the 2000 rank and 2012 rank is quite huge. So for those who argue standardized testing is helping America rank higher in the PISA, clearly we haven't even moved one rank up with standardized testing. America had only dropped, a long fall

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On the last international test that the United States was involved in, the country ranked twenty-seven out of thirty-four when all subjects are averaged. Of the three subjects (math, science, and reading) the United States’ rankings were twenty seventh, twentieth, and seventeenth. Oddly enough, the best scores that the United States had were in reading, which is part of a liberal arts education. Zakaria says, “Since 1964, when the first such exam was administered to thirteen-year-olds in twelve countries, America has lagged behind its peers, rarely rising above the middle of the pack and doing particularly poorly in science and math.” The country’s scores have never been very high in math and science, even though these two subjects are crucial to technology and engineering.

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To better convince the generation of today that many perceive to be arrogant, pompous, and perhaps ignorant, that their beloved country may not be as great as what it once was is a difficult task. Recognizing that a large amount of emotional appeal would do nothing to enhance their purpose, the authors included a plethora of statistics with limited room for interpretation to leave their audience with little to deny. The utilization of numbers is found in every major section of the piece. One may not believe that the US is faltering in education unless appropriate facts are presented in a strategic manner. Following is an excerpt: “The Program for International Assessment (PISA) exam is given to almost half a million 15- year old students in 64 countries and economies every three years.

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Standard testing is a very controversial and important subject because it deals with the progression of the American education system. The practice of these assessments has been highly scrutinized not only for the way it has changed the format of classrooms, but also for its accuracy, pressure, and abundance. In 2001, standardized testing became federally mandated through the No Child Left Behind Act by former president George Bush Jr. According to research from the Council of the Great City Schools, students have been taking “an average of 113 tests from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade” (K. Hefling). These numbers have increased to the point where parents have opted for their children to not attend standardized exams.

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These tests determine who gets to advance to the next grade level and will be placed in the “advanced” classes. Students get stressed out over the test because they have test anxiety which causes them to do poorly. Different people live in different situations, which could also affect how they do on the test. If the student gets into a fight with his or her parents at home the morning of the test, they are not going to be able to focus on the test. They are going to think about what they could have done or said differently to change the outcome of the argument.

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Although standardized testing has been around for many years, it has become an increasing problem within the past decade. Many teachers, students, and parents feel administering these tests waste time in the classroom and add unnecessary stress onto children. Much of pressure is put

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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.

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There’s much controversy over standardized testing. Is it too much to ask of students to take standardized testing or is it good for students to be ranked as a whole. From extensive research the information will tell whether it is really causing a problem in the school or not. The questions being touched on are what is standardized testing, and how it is impacting the learning of our country as a whole, and how the practice of standardized testing is different from years past and how does the standardized testing effects students both mentally and physically learning. By finding the answers to these questions the hope is to be able to find what the values of standardized testing are and if it is really helpful to rank the the teacher and students or if it causes teachers to just “teach to the test.”

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Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. Their use became mandated after 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which mandated annual testing in all 50 states for student’s grades three through eight. This act aimed to hold all public schools to a high standard of education, measured by their student’s scores in statewide-standardized tests. High-stakes achievement tests have provoked the most controversy.

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No Child Left Behind, a bill passed in 2002 which required all states to set goals and standard that would follow the guidelines of a national plan. The primary way to assure that all students met these goals was through a standardized test which would be administered once at the end of each school year, but the problem stands that standardized tests are an inadequate method of tracking the progress of students. In its current form standardized tests are designed to only measure proficiency in math, English, social studies, and science. As stated by Gerald W. Bracey, PhD "Standardized tests cannot measure qualities like creativity, critical thinking, resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance, reliability, enthusiasm, empathy,

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After the standardized tests were created, American students from being ranked 18th in math, in the world, in 2000. To be being in 27th in math in 2012. Also to the Pew Center on the state's, annual state spending on standardized was at 423 million and rose to 1.1

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The United States has been talked about as being a powerful nation, but our education system has become ineffective. The United States lacks the high test scores compared to the likes of nations such as Finland and Singapore. As a nation we must ask, what seems to be the problem? A critical issue that is holding our country back is the enforcement of standardized testing in the United States.

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Parents and education officials in the United States have a growing concern that the children in their public-school systems are being taught how to take tests instead of being taught the lesson plans that they should be learning. Increased standardized testing is having a negative effect on the nation’s public-schools by reducing teaching time and producing lower tests scores than countries with less standardized testing than the United States. In a recent study of some of the largest districts in the nation, it was found that the number of unnecessary tests that are being given to children in the United States has risen in the past decade. Students take 112 state-mandated tests between pre-kindergarten and the end of their 12th grade year.

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Schools like Smith, Bowdoin and Bennington do not require those test. With schools taking away these standardized test America is getting weaker in world wide education ranking. According to Business Insider; they ranked Singapore, as the smartest country in the world. Singapore is a country that relies on standardized testing for everything and is very strict about it. Their government would not let you do anything without passing these test.

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Standardized testing is an issue that affects students early on in their lives and can affect not only their future but the future. Here we discuss why standardized testing can prove to be a negative impact on a child’s learning experience and stunt their development. To fully understand the concept of standardized testing – its effects, its purpose, and benefits – we must first define it. Standardized testing refers to a compilation of a series of generated questions administered to all students wherein they are to answer in formulaically and then checked by their teachers in an ‘equal’ and consistent manner in order to grasp the depth of learning a student has achieved. Standardized testing is so focused on the equality aspect of education

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