Should State Governments Replace Standardized Testing?

Introduction

Does all society know standardized testing robs their children from their childhoods? State governments use a horrible and unfair resources to measure different student’s achievements. Other than stressing out the students, the tests only measure a small portion of essential education. State governments should allow school districts to replace standardized testing with authentic tests for each student to ensure individual success. Standardized testing is an undependable and an unfair resource to be used for measuring student performance, and it does not show improvement in student achievement. Not all students have the same abilities to take the same standardized test. In conclusion, state governments should replace standardized
Some critics say that standardized testing are a reliable measure of student performance and are fair to all students. As stated by Richard Phelps, PhD on, "Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Educational Testing Programs,” “ Without them, policy makers would have to rely on tests scored by individual schools and teachers who have a vested interest in producing favorable results. Multiple-choice tests, in particular, are graded by machine and therefore are not subject to human subjectivity or bias.” Therefore, state tests are a reliable resource because they are not exposed to human bias. As stated above, if there was not state testing, there would be tests created and graded by individual schools, which would cause bias, in favor of teachers, towards the grading. Michelle Rhee argues on, MPP, "Accommodate Dont Discriminate,” “using alternate tests for minorities or exempting children with disabilities would be unfair to those students: You can't separate them, and to try to do so creates two, unequal systems, one with accountability and one without it. This is a civil rights issue.” In other words, making separate tests for different children is unfair because you will be creating disparate systems. This would make the children with disabilities feel that they are below average. All in all, there are people not pleased with replacing the state tests and think it should
Some agree that standardized tests should be replaced with authentic assessments for individuals. While others agree that state tests should stay due to their reliability and fairly assessing student performance. However, there are many evidence that go against state testing. For example, standardized tests leave out a very significant part of education such as creativity, critical thinking, and motivation. And state tests are graded by undereducated people who understand nothing about what they are grading. Also, state tests do not show any improved performance in students. They put pressure on students just for assessing teachers if they taught the state standards. Lastly, standardized tests take a one size fits all approach of giving different students the same tests. Altogether, the different points of view both make sense and it will take state governments time to choose with what to go