Zarah Russell Dr. Fontenot English 102 February 23, 2024.. Testing Students Patience Standardized tests like the ACT and SAT are used to objectively measure the academic achievement of a school and its individual students. The scores of these tests may also determine the students admitted to college or the recipients of financial aid and other scholarships. However, these tests should not be used to determine if a student should continue to the next grade, let alone graduate. Not every student benefits from standardized testing, because not every student processes information in the same way. Standardized testing is ineffective because it does not accurately reflect the intelligence of students, increases anxiety among students, and limits opportunities for students to learn. …show more content…
The article “Standardized Testing: Harmful to Educational Health” written by Monty D. Neil, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, and Medina J. Noe, a consultant for Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color, explains that standardized tests “assume that all individuals perceive information and solve problems the same way” (Neil and Noe 692). Not every student processes information the same way, which limits the effectiveness of standardized testing. When the test is only created to be beneficial to one kind of student, it marginalizes everyone else. Just because a student does not perform well on a test that is not made for the way they think, it does not mean they are any less intelligent. It only means that they do not process information in the same way as another student that scored higher on the same test. A test that is not made for every kind of student should not determine the academic achievement of every kind of