There is evidence to support that standardized tests are negatively affecting our students, lowering the quality of education, and leaving our students ill prepared for the “real world.” There is also evidence that standardized tests are not a good measurement of intelligence for everyone as discussed by Howard Gardner in his multiple intelligences theory. Evidence suggests that standardized tests should be reevaluated, changed, or completely eliminated.
Participants
I sent surveys (Appendix A) to 2 former standardized test takers. The first survey I sent out was to a young white man around the age of 18 and 24; he currently works as a food runner and a cook at a restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. He was born and raised in the United States and attended school in New Mexico and Texas. He took four different standardized tests. The four standardized tests that he took are the following: TAKS, STAAR, PSAT, and the SAT. My second participant is a Hispanic woman around the age of 45 and 54; she is currently unemployed due to a disability. However, she was a college graduate and once a dentist. She was born and raised in the United States and attended school in Texas. She took at total of four different standardized tests. The four standardized tests that she took are the following: TABS, SAT, PDAT, and the DAT.
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Although my participants are from vastly different age groups, my participants have different backgrounds and schooling experiences and have taken a standardized test. Both of my participants would benefit from learning more about the effects of standardized tests on students and how standardized tests are greatly diminishing the quality of education in the United