Despite iGen’s protests, standardized testing proves beneficial while containing flaws. The overall feeling towards standardized testing in the youth are those of negative connotations. Entitled mindsets place the blame for less than satisfactory scores on elements outside of their control. Although the benefits, there are sometimes less than satisfactory aspects. “Most egregiously, [the No Child Left Behind Act] assumed than high test scores are synonymous with education… ‘good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children’” (Capitol Reader). When teens are taught to take a test and to test well, not learning the materials utilized later in life. Many young adults desire learning, but feel a lacking of outlets provided. Due …show more content…
Despite negative connotations, benefits surrounding standardized testing remain prevalent. “When we take a test on which we are asked to retrieve and produce previously learned information, successfully recalling that information increase our ability to retrieve it again later” (Benjamin and Pashler ). Testing strengthens memory recall. Despite the call young adults have for “practical education” and decrease in testing, the despised tests prepare them for the real world by helping the remember. Teens are ignorant to the fact that testing, particularly standardized testing, facilitate memory strengthening. This is important for iGen to realize because when becoming the “older generation”, they are in charge of the younger generations, removing standardized testing will have the potential to take away a key strength for memory and memory recall. Removing standardized testing will also damage the styles in which educators teach. “When we take a test, we discover which of our study endeavors have been successful and which have not been.” This reveals to iGen that when test results come in, helping give insight to how the educational system is doing in teaching and helping students recall the curriculum