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The Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing

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One of the significant disadvantages of standardized testing is not enhance study achievement.
According to Education Week (2000), it raised several concerns about testing objective they suggest that “The main objective of these tests is to rank, not to rate; to spread out the scores, not to gauge the quality of a given student or school.” The real purpose of testing is not focusing on benefit of the student can obtain from testing. However, they only focus and challenge on the ranking. Similarly, as The New York Times reported in its lead story of Nov. 9, 2014, “Teaching to a test is destroying our society.” This sentence from one father who broke down as he said he planned to pull his second grader from school.
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