What Are The Benefits Of Standardized Testing In Schools
Standardized testing has always been a factor in our schools. Schools have continually taught it for more than fifty years. Amy Witherbee is content on her opinion that standardized tests are important, not for the testing, but for the standards(Witherbee). In 1983, studies are shown that the U.S. has found studies to show how disastrous the United States education system is(Witherbee). Over the next few years the U.S. tries to find ways to make this better. “Kids in school are not doing the basics,”Witherbee states(Witherbee). She does not like how the schools these days are doing there job. She has looked into what schools have been teaching. A study came out and said that, “Only 31 percent of high school graduates had completed intermediate
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With the rapid growth of technology, media, and lifestyle during the past fifty years “we cant be surprised that the most recent generation is absorbing different kinds of information and learning different skills from the world around them”(Witherbee). She goes on saying how “kids may well be more conversant in DNA science and the abstracts of Internet technology. One of the major things she says is that Standerdized tests are not a problem because of the pressure they place on kids, but “how they reveal the discrepancies between what we think kids should learn and what we teach”(Witherbee). The author goes on to talk about how to make testing better and education better overall. Witherbee says that, “we need to come together was a community so that we can negotiate some clear ideas for what skills students need to learn from us and what type of information w expect them to know”(Witherbee). She then keeps talking about our future generation. She states, “Everyone of us is accountable for the next generation”(Witherbee). Thus her main ideas are that no one can do it by themselves. The fact that the author keeps on talking about how it all benefits our community and environment, show how the little things like this can change the way a civilization is brought up or made. By keeping communities stronger,
With the rapid growth of technology, media, and lifestyle during the past fifty years “we cant be surprised that the most recent generation is absorbing different kinds of information and learning different skills from the world around them”(Witherbee). She goes on saying how “kids may well be more conversant in DNA science and the abstracts of Internet technology. One of the major things she says is that Standerdized tests are not a problem because of the pressure they place on kids, but “how they reveal the discrepancies between what we think kids should learn and what we teach”(Witherbee). The author goes on to talk about how to make testing better and education better overall. Witherbee says that, “we need to come together was a community so that we can negotiate some clear ideas for what skills students need to learn from us and what type of information w expect them to know”(Witherbee). She then keeps talking about our future generation. She states, “Everyone of us is accountable for the next generation”(Witherbee). Thus her main ideas are that no one can do it by themselves. The fact that the author keeps on talking about how it all benefits our community and environment, show how the little things like this can change the way a civilization is brought up or made. By keeping communities stronger,