Standardized Tests Hurts Our Kids
Have you ever had to sit through a long boring test? Well, kids in the United States of America are forced in to take these long tests. These tests are supposed to measure children’s intelligence. These students face anxiety and stress over the length and difficulty of these tests. These tests do not promote learning in any way. Standardized Tests do not Improve Education in America because some students are not good at testing, questions can be biased, and it is unfair to teachers.
Standardized tests only determine if students are good at testing. These tests are stress inducing and only show if the kids are good under pressure. “Standardized test scores are easily influenced by outside factors including stress, hunger, tiredness, and prior teachers or parents’ comments about the difficulty of the test”. (69) Stress plays such a damaging role in grades. "External Stereotypes also play a part in scores research indicating that being targeted by well-known stereotypes.” (70) What we do not need is a more confusing test. The website procon.org says “Stunts are assessed on grade appropriate material but are not released to determine if they have learned information
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People say that standardized “Test scores are good indicators of college and job success.” Testing is no way to show someone's abilities and skills. “Standardized tests offer meaningful data to help students in marginalized groups.” It is more of the opposite, people who are already struggling are not going to do well on a test that is hard to understand. Another argument people use is “Standardized tests offer an objective measurement of education and good metrics to gauge areas for improvement.”(Pro 1) The test can not accurately show what the teachers shude tech because of the possibility of stress cursing lower scores. Of every argument you can make there is a better reason why we should stop using these