The Pros And Cons Of Standardized Testing

Standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students (The Glossary of Education Reform, 2014). Standardized testing has a previous history. According to National Education Association (NEA) standardized testing was actually put in place around in the 1840’s. Then a whole variety of other tests were created. Standardized testing actually started off being the base for students understanding and provided the students growth in basic concepts. But, as time has passed
Standardized testing provides data for comparing schools on common academic standards. It manifests a big importance on disparities that’s schools and teachers have. Standardized testing gives parents and the public an indicator of whether or not kids are learning. Standardized testing also identifies if schools are actually meeting their expectations. Schools have been judged by their standardized test and it is either positive or negative criticism. Standardized testing has caused issues for teachers and their teaching methods. Standardized testing has provided positive and negative statistics on students who take
The resource disparities between the black and the white children have shrunk steadily over time. The average African American child now attends school in a district that spends as much per pupil as the average Caucasian children district. African American children schools have about the same amount of teachers per pupil as predominately Caucasian schools. The predominantly white schools do attract more skilled teachers than the AfricanAmerican schools. The black students who attend predominantly white schools benefit from having better teachers because they achieve higher test scores. When African american or mixed-race children are raised in white households rather than black, their pre-adolescent test scores rise dramatically. Even the IQ test scores clearly respond to changes in the environment. The IQ test scores have even risen dramatically throughout the world since the 1930s(Jencks, Christopher and Phillips, Meredith, 1998). In America, 82 percent of those who took the Stanford-Binet test in 1978 scored above the 1932 average for individuals of the same age(Jencks, Christopher and Phillips, Meredith, 1998). The average black did about as well on the Stanford-Binet test in 1978 as the average white did in 1932(Jencks, Christopher and Phillips, Meredith,