- lost learning time, teachers are now strictly teaching to the test instead of giving an actual education, students are forgetting about other subject such as history or science because tests do not ask those subjects therefore teachers do not teach it
- students are being presented with harmful stress, teachers have reported students vomiting, increasing anxiety levels and unexpected bowel movements
- students begin to believe they are "bad" students and are incapable of passing, standardized tests are made to fail a certain percentage of students across the country. These students are more likely to dropout easily because of their inability to pass tests.
Quotes:
"As we enter the March Madness of testing season, many parents and teachers have become increasingly concerned that the high stakes attached to so many tests are actually harming our students and schools. There is particular concern about the disproportionate impact high stakes testing may be having on our own poorest students, most struggling students, English Language Learners, and students of color."
"Students are learning how to take high stakes tests, but cannot demonstrate subject mastery when tested in a different format."
#2 Gere, Anne Ruggles. "How Standardized Tests Shape-and Limit-Student Learning." National Council of Teachers of English. James R. Squire, 2014. Web. 4 Apr. 2016.
- The roles of teachers are changing, loosing more time to actually teach an education in the classroom.
- Standardized tests squeeze out subjects such as music, art and foreign languages. Tests limits the type of writing students learn. They aren't learning how to do rhetorical analysis or how to apply writing skills in real life because standardized testing isn't measuring it.
- Tests limit student learning because they focus on your ability to memorize instead of other qualities
- Student learning is limited because of the tests sorting students into proficient or non proficient categories.
- Solutions to standardized testing: having multiple assessments of student achievement, providing special accommodations to certain students.
Quotes:
"Research shows, for example, that GED recipients perform
about as well as high school graduates on standardized
tests but have much worse life outcomes because they
often lack important qualities such as curiosity, conscientiousness,
perseverance, and sociability"
"One study found
that teachers lose between 60 to 110 hours of instructional time in a year
because of testing and the institutional tasks that surround it."
"Studies
show that elementary school students can begin to
lose their sense of themselves as capable, able to do well
in school and graduate, when they see unknown adults
as controlling the administration and consequences of
the standardized tests they are required to take."
#3 Barth, Patte. "Standardized Tests and Their Impact on Schooling: Q&A." Center for Public Education. N.p., 16 Feb. 2006. Web. 05 Apr. 2016.
- Every state is different with how much they depend on standardized test scores, some are more high stakes than others
- High stakes tests means serious consequences
- Standardized tests are used to monitor students progress, diagnose areas of strength or weakness, place students into categories or to judge institutions or educators
- Stats prove that teachers teaching directly and strictly to the test produce higher test scores than providing an actual education
"Research is beginning to show that teaching to the test can be either good or bad depending on how administrators or teachers approach it."
"Research shows that when schools teach curriculum aligned to state standards and use test score data to reflect on the practices, students will produce higher test scores. School leaders should therefore make sure their teachers have an aligned curriculum."
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