Effectiveness Of Standardized Testing

Standardized tests is a common way of measuring a student 's progress and performance in school. The tests may vary by different schools and grades and it usually takes up a large portion of a student 's total mark. Although it is purposely designed to be a consistent and accurate tool. However, many questions the effectiveness of standardized testing. Standardized testing is an inaccurate assessment because it does not effectively judge the student 's ability to learn or understand, it can not always be objective and fair, and it does not take into account the student 's updated understanding.

Standardized test marks based on a student 's performance on complete the exam, and little on their actual knowledge or skills. To get full mark,
As a result, these factors often cause students to be stressful and even anxiety before and during the test. Through these tension, students ' often is decreased in performance and becoming unable to demonstration their true understanding. Even those who are getting high grades and fully understands can choke under pressure, psychologists says that even “When it comes to the cognitive function needed during testing, anxiety and stress become our biggest foe.” (Ebert, 2013). This is because standardized tests does not take students ' emotional or mental conditions into consideration and thus produce underestimated results. Furthermore, standardized testing can also taken advantage of. Cheating is something many people choose to during tests to achieve high
While a student may had made many mistakes or had confusions during a test and ends up receiving a lower score than expected. However, errors and mistakes actually helps learning: “research indicates that errors are not necessarily the enemy of learning; they... in fact, enhance it.” (Nate, 2010). Often time, student will see the mistakes of what he or she have done, and from that, they immediately learns and corrects their old and incorrect knowledge. Regardless, once the test has been submitted and that the mistakes has been made, the mark stays permanent. Therefore, its inferences about the students will soon became outdated as the tests will forever see that the student had made these mistakes being mistakes uncorrected and never change. Formal assessment can not recognize that whether students that have learned from their mistakes nor will update to match