Arguments Against State Testing
Nearly every student that is required to do a state test can agree that standardized testing is a pain. There are even some cases where teachers find state testing to be a bothersome. The point is that the majority views on standardized testing are not so delightful. Even though some may view standardized testing as an essential part of the schooling system, they are mistaken because with state testing there is no learning, has life changing consequences, its focus is narrowed, provides minimal to no use of feedback, and there are more fit alternatives.
One might object here that standardized testing is essential because it helps to ascertain what kids know or do not know, helps parents/guardians decide, helps create a common and fair ground, and is the most effective type of performance task.
However, when it comes to standardized testing teachers are not teaching to help kids learn …show more content…
These tests are a limited band of achievement that keeps its focus on just reading, math, and science, as if those are the only things in which one should understand. State tests disregard other ways of comprehension, such as physical conditioning, music, art, and other, non-verbal ways of learning. These tests “measure only ‘low level’ thinking processes; because they put the wrong people — test manufacturers — in charge of American education” (Brady).
There are even some teachers that believe state tests provides minimal to no use of feedback. Honestly, some teachers have not gathered much from the scores and as Marion Brady, a retired teacher, suggests it “limits their abilities to adapt to learner differences. And this could reduce the teachers’ creativity and the appeal of teaching as a profession”. Truly, teachers are not getting a real picture of achievement. The standards and testing are running their course which could prevent them from being
One might object here that standardized testing is essential because it helps to ascertain what kids know or do not know, helps parents/guardians decide, helps create a common and fair ground, and is the most effective type of performance task.
However, when it comes to standardized testing teachers are not teaching to help kids learn …show more content…
These tests are a limited band of achievement that keeps its focus on just reading, math, and science, as if those are the only things in which one should understand. State tests disregard other ways of comprehension, such as physical conditioning, music, art, and other, non-verbal ways of learning. These tests “measure only ‘low level’ thinking processes; because they put the wrong people — test manufacturers — in charge of American education” (Brady).
There are even some teachers that believe state tests provides minimal to no use of feedback. Honestly, some teachers have not gathered much from the scores and as Marion Brady, a retired teacher, suggests it “limits their abilities to adapt to learner differences. And this could reduce the teachers’ creativity and the appeal of teaching as a profession”. Truly, teachers are not getting a real picture of achievement. The standards and testing are running their course which could prevent them from being