Standardized Tests Measure Student Performance

First, standardized tests cannot measure the true capacity and measure student performance. To get a good score on standardized tests, students just try to memorize all contents of what teachers told and taught them. By this process, students do not only try to understand deeply about the contents, but they also just memorize things whose notions that they do not know and comprehend well. This may cause students to forget the substances so easily. Moreover, in multiple-choice tests, students can guess if they don’t know answers of questions, which cannot show real skill or ability of students. Furthermore, they measure only a small portion of what makes education meaningful. For example, according to the education researcher of USA, Gerald
Since it can test many students at the same time, it might be helpful to school which usually has not much time. They also argue that creativity and thinking skills of students can be measured and grown by difficult questions. For example, in South Korea, there are lots of difficult math questions for students who want to grow their thinking skills. Moreover, they argue, if schools use other methods such as interview, it can cost much more money than standardized tests because teachers should test all students individually. While these arguments may hold some merit on the surface, they should remember that it can never evaluate students’ genuine individual ability, which is a lot more important than time. In addition, questions which are just difficult do not help students to grow their inner thinking skills because there is still the possibility for students to guess the answer. Furthermore, although other methods can cause more budgets than standardized tests, they can assure for teachers to know the students’ performance and ability precisely and in detail. We should not forget students’ development and performance are the most important things in