Arguments Against Standardized Testing Research

A test is designed to see what a student or person knows based on prior knowledge, or newly learned knowledge. The test is to show the teacher or over looker how well this particular person did and how much they know about a particular topic. For most people taking a test is easy and there is no stress behind it. But for others, the word test is like a trigger for stress, worry, and anxiety. You can either be a good test taker or not, there is really no in between on the matter. So when America starts cramming test into student’s heads, there are going to be problems. Rather you are good test taker or not, when the government starts trying to cram test after test into young student’s heads and it’s not going to work. Students may be able to be molded and formed into a different student in their thinking, but the way the information goes in and out is the same. In the cartoon, there is a large hand with a suit sleeve attempting to put a square block representing standardized testing, into a young student’s round
“For most of our nation’s past, the task of education was undertaken as a responsibility and an opportunity to impart fundamental knowledge of American culture, traditions and Constitutional ideals to young citizens and to prepare them for their roles as contributing members of a free society (CITE).” At the start, it was the teacher’s responsibility to give proper testing to the students to make sure they were learning what they were taught but now it is the governments choice. Now “tests such as these are incapable of determining the level of student understanding and reasoning underlying their answer choices, which is critical to pinpointing areas for remediation. Rather, these tests simply categorize students into achievement groups so that school districts can be rated in an effort to manipulate financial subsidies and assure state certification (Kohn, 2002). (Maranto