Why Do We Need Standardized Testing?

Standardized testing plays an important role in the development of children. Without standardized testing there would be certain aspects of the mind of our youth that we wouldn’t know. Standardized testing gives us a measurement of the mind of the test takers capabilities to successfully solve the answer to the basic questions of knowledge. We need standardized testing to show us if a teacher is doing his or her job in the classroom. We have many needs for these standardized tests. Standardized testing has been a around longer than you might realize. The earliest record of standardized testing was in China. (Fletcher-"Standardized Testing"). They used the method of standardized testing to examine their knowledge of philosophy and poetry whenever they went to get prospected for a job. This is most likely not the reason why most people today
Very few states were testing students to see how they were performing academically. This Act required states to test their students and the required them to give consequences to schools that students were failing these test (Rotherham). This lit a fire under most schools and they wanted to their students to score highly on these test, most schools have things put in place to help students in their academics and to make them better test takers. Not every student can simply perform well on a test, that is understandable, but there are ways that a school can help these students become better test takers. Every since this Act was put into place, most schools have scored fairly well on these standardized test ("Background & Analysis"). Now, some people are worried that some teachers are “teaching to the test”, but the test covers material that needs to be covered. So, is it so wrong to be focusing on material that will be on the tests? Not necessarily in majority