Alanna Blanchard
Professor Braniger
English 1301
9 November 2015
Standardized Testing
Schools across the state are required to take standardized tests at the end of each year. These state-mandated tests can very well determine the decision of whether a student passes or fails a grade level. This, making students feel stressed and overwhelmed to learn and accomplish the given tasks to pass, is a problem. Teachers and students shouldn’t feel stressed by cramming for a test that is given at the end of a course, instead of actually recalling the information learned and passing the grade on their own knowledge. Standardized testing should not be the deciding factor of whether a student passes or fails a grade.
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If a student fails a standardized test because they couldn’t remember the information learned earlier that year or because they just never were able to stick the information in their head, they automatically fail that grade level. Making the student ineligible to graduate the provided year. Julia, writer of “Producing Commodities or Educating Children? Nurturing the Personal Growth of Students in the Face of Standardized Testing” questions, “What good is it if our students are academically successful, yet lack what is necessary to cope with more difficult life issues…” (Barrier-Ferreira). This making citizens around the United States worry. They wonder, why work hard for grades all year if students can fail the grade with just one test? State mandated testing has ruined the image of what learning, knowledge, and being successful it supposed to be in the end. Author of “...A Failing Attempt at Reform”, Sarah Lastname says, “Any school failing to meet the AYP must immediately take corrective action to avoid sanctions.” (Holmes). So when students fail the grade or curriculum because they can’t quite reach the standards of the test, not only does the child suffer but the school itself suffers as well. Students across the globe study and work hard all year long to be successful in life, but the pressure of one test failing them, brings them stress and ruins not only their goals of graduating on time, but it also brings down their self - esteem. This idea of a standardized test defeats the purpose of attending to school one hundred and eighty days a year for 12 or more