Being Standard Lately there has been a lot of talk among my peers about standardized testing. I have spoken to many teachers and friends who have school age children and they feel that the United States over test in schools and in doing so causes a low success rate amongst our adolescents. However, many other countries still preform standardize test and are getting positive results. Are standardized test as beneficial as we once thought, or should they be a thang of the past. No.2 pencils, scratch paper, and a bubble sheet; when these things hit my desk, I knew it was going to be a rough day. There are many cons to standardize test but one of the biggest is the fact that they can produce skewed results. No child is the same so why would we test them all the same? Growing up I had test anxiety and I hated school because I felt unintelligent when I couldn’t finish my test before my time exceeded, and it had a major effect on my self-esteem. Anxiousness isn’t the only contributing factor, some children have shorter attention deficits which make it impossible to sit …show more content…
According to the Washington Post (2012), “Hong Kong has been consistently ranked among the top OECD countries in education” A lot of Asia countries like Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea use a significant amount of testing and rote memorization in their school systems and get positive results. Standardize testing can be beneficial, they provide an accurate comparison on how other children around the world measure up to those on the same grade level. Standardize test also provide guidance for teachers and parents and allow them to see where their child stands academically. Another benefit to testing is that it holds teachers and schools accountable. Teachers are responsible for teaching a required curriculum for the year and standardize test scores provide sufficient proof that the teachers did in fact teach the class the required