Standardized testing is currently used all over the world. It is used many different ways. It ranges from determining intelligence levels, to deciding your future with colleges and jobs. Each test is made up differently, and each standardized test taker reacts differently to them. The tests cause the test taker to be stressed, along with the mental, and photometric aspects. 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. Standardized tests are started way too early in the school systems.
"Students as young as 6 or 7 years old are now subjected to weeks of preparation for high stakes tests. Because math, reading, and to a lesser extent, science are the only subjects regularly tested, students are drilled in those topics." (Kumeh).
This quote shows that students that 6 and 7 are subjected to taking stressful tests, and placed under pressure at such a young stage. Kids that age, have minds that are still developing. The stress it puts on them could be detrimental to their
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"A test item answered correctly by 90 percent of the test-takers is, from the perspective of a test's efficiency in providing comparative interpretations, being answered correctly by too many students." (Popham). In this example the only ten percent of the standardized test takers had got this question wrong. If an astounding ninety percent of the all of the standardized test takers had answered that question correctly, then those results conclude that the question is too