Imagine schools and classrooms where students are able to do more hands on activities, enrichment, and more skill building that will be useful as adults. Many students, parents, and teachers could say that they are against the fact that schools allow standardized testing for students K-12. The state government should allow students not to take any form of state testing to insure more hands on activities. When students go to take the standardized test most students do not take their time due to stress. Also students may not always be able to answer the questions asked on the test, and there is unfairness with IEP tudents, and non IEP students.
With this in mind, the state government should take away standardized testing. State testing causes students less study time on their classroom curriculum. Students are stressed about the high stakes associated with the state mandated tests. One reason, students do not take their time due to stress during test week. Students do not take their time, and do not take state testing seriously. Many students have not developed the skill of taking their time during certain tasks, and activities. This includes state testing. Students already have enough going on in their lives hat they do not need to add more.
When teachers are teaching the subject needed to be learned most students do not take the testing issue seriously, and would not take the time to understand the topic. Instruction time is being consumed by monotonous test preparation. Most schools around the U. S. probably have a medium length video tutorial on how to use the testing material that is given to the students online. The video tutorials can be to many students, a lack interest or boredom. This is where the instruction time for state testing is being consumed by monotonous preparation according to ProsCons. rg cite made in 2008. This is meaning the students are not finding preparation time interesting or entertaining. Students need to learn so much and understand in weeks notice. Before test week comes students are only given a couple weeks notice which can be a problem. Students, and the time given to go over the expectations is not a lot, so when test week comes students can often forget what they have learned that is cited in the standardized tests. In the final analysis, students should not have to deal with the stress of trying to prepare for state testing.
To begin with, there are three similar ways that the state government should let students in schools not take state testing such as AIR or SAT. A second reason, is questions on state testing are not always answerable. Students are not always able to answer questions on state test because they haven’t learned enough. Some students learn faster than others, but if a teacher is teaching a subject that’s mandatory for the standardized testing. A student might not ask for help from a teacher and when test week comes that student would not be able to answer the questions as easily as other students.
The multiple- choice format used on standardized tests is an inadequate assessment tool. Multiple-choice format used on standardized tests can feel to many students that it is a trick question trying to trick students into thinking the question is harder than it really is which can lead to low test scores. Open-ended questions on standardized tests are often graded by under-paid temporary workers with no educational training. This supports the claim because by the time the test comes, and students have taken, and finished the test the tests are graded by under- aid temporary workers with no educational training.
So, taking, and preparing for standardized test is a waste of time if the tests are not going to be graded correctly, and professionally. Therefore, all preparation for standardized tests are not worth the time and effort. The fairness between IEP students, and students without IEP’s is not always agreeable to some capacities. IEP students get many more opportunities, and advantages than students without IEP’s. IEP students get more time on state tests, but students without IEP’s do not get extra time which seem unfair to people. IEP students typically get an extra hour on testing, but others without IEP’s do not.
This can be extremely unfair to students (even parents) with or without IEP’s because the students without may feel like they have to rush through the test with the given time that they have or some might think the time they are given is too long or too short. Students with IEP’s could possibly feel good about themselves or might think they have to use the extra time, and stay on a question for a couple of minutes to make it look like they were not rushing through the test. Standardized tests are unfair and discriminatory gainst non English speakers and students with special needs.
Non-English speakers would have a tougher time taking state tests because they probably know little english and they might of came to the U. S. in the middle of the school year with causes confusion to the student. Having a non-English speaker take a state test would most likely take up the whole testing time given to the student. Also, special needs students would need extra help like having a tool option where the test could read out the questions depending what their weaknesses are. An obsession with testing robs children of their childhoods.
Throughout K-12th grade all students will mostly take state testing unless they have opted out, but for the students that have not opted out they may have to live with the thought that they are at some point going to have to take the state testing, and that they are never going to successfully pass the test. This is not what authorities, or teachers what to hear which is then causes the thought of having state testing haunt the students. To sum it all up, state testing is not favorable part of school for students, and can most definitely cause stress, and anxiety for many students.
Many people such as teachers, and parents would say that schools should keep standardized testing for different reasons. Schools should keep standardized testing to improve students’ education. It’s an efficient way to someone’s knowledge. After a student takes a state test they have to submit it. Then, a couple weeks later the student would find out how well they did on the test. State testing can be thought as testing someone on how well they listen, and understand a theme being taught. State educators can see from the scores the students have made, and what the student can do better next time to achieve a higher core.
It can show how much one has learned through the years and last test. Most teachers keep a record of each student on how much they have learned throughout the years from the last test. Teachers then can meet with the students, and talk over what the student can do to become even more successful during state testing. Stricter standards and increased testing are better preparing school students for college. Teachers with high, and stern qualities can help students improve their testing score, but how? Students at some point will get into the habit of studying for anything weather it is a small quiz to a huge exam.
This is substantial because once students go off to college they are most likely to be successful, and graduate college with a high GPA because they would have kept that study habit. This is good for college exams too. You can see why, schools should keep state testing because it can be a massive benefit for students. All in all, standardized testing should be banned in all states for the students. This also benefits teachers because would not have to worry about students and their scores which then can be let to a more hands on, and somewhat of a stress free environment.
