No Child Left Behind

Standardized testing can be very stressful for everyone, not sure students but also on their teachers and parents. If the student fails that means that the teacher failed on teaching them and helping them understand what they needed too in order to pass the test. The parents are stressed because they just want their child to do well and get into a good school. The students have a lot of pressure because they must receive a certain score in order to reach above average and please their teachers and parents. Also, they must get the required or above the required score in order to get into their dream college or university.

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• Every student has a fear or being rejected by their dream school just because of their standardized testing scores. They could be the best student in their whole grade but if they do not receive the required score their dream school won’t even bother looking at their high school grades or what they did for extracurricular activities.

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• Parents are starting to notice that once their child reaches the grade level where teacher start preparing them for the SAT or ACT, their child is no longer learning important skills or the important curriculum to their age level. Most schools once they hit Sophomore or junior year change pace from the academic curriculum to the standardized testing curriculum and what they need to know in order to pass the tests. Students then become more focused on these tests and not so much or everyday skills and another academic curriculum.

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• The standardized test is the same and graded the same for everyone, but this causes a problem because some people could have amazing grades in high school. After taking the test and getting a low mark then defeats the purpose of doing well in school. This picture represents the grading process where there’s he same task for different animals but most of them cannot fully complete them. Just as how college acceptance is with the SAT scores, if you have the passing score you are most likely accepted but if you don’t have the passing score you won’t be accepted.

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• Standardized testing can put so much pressure on students that they lose their interest in doing well in these tests, especially the ones who know they won’t get the right score. They will just give up on themselves, while others just want to be able to learn and not have to worry about the silly test scores to get into the perfect top college. Some students are under so much pressure to get the perfect score that they lose their drive to learn the material that the teacher is teaching them, they only want to understand it enough to pass the certain section of the standardized test.

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• When students have spent all their high school career preparing to only take test its hard for them to have real world skills. Even though they understand the concept of the standardized testing they don’t understand the basic adult task. Yes, students who have done well have gone to their dream college, but they don’t comprehend the basic knowledge needed in adult hood.

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• Now a day’s young student’s questions are being left unanswered because they are not part of the curriculum each teacher is assigned too and must follow day to day. This causes the young student to hold back from asking questions that may not be part of the curriculum. Many Students who will ask questions get immediately shut down because its not connected to the lesson or the teacher doesn’t believe it is really that important to learning about test taking.

 

Work Cited

Doherty, Bryan. “Pro v. Con: Standardized Test Provide Inaccurate Judgment of Students’ College Readiness.” The Patriot, jcpatriot.com/perspectives/2013/03/11/pro-v-con-standardized-test-provide-inaccurate-judgment-of-students-college-readiness/.

Andrew Paulsen. “Category: Standardized Testing.” Andrew Paulsen, andrewpaulsen.org/category/standardized-testing/.

“Commentary.” Home, quemarpress.weebly.com/commentary.html.

“The Future of Standardized Testing.” The Politics of Reading, 2 Feb. 2017, thepoliticsofreading.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/the-future-of-standardized-testing/

Lyon, Kimberly. Moriah Mayhew, Moriah Mayhew, blogs.longwood.edu/standardizedtesting/.