Standardized Testing Argumentative Essay

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There is hardly a student alive who can hear the words ‘standardized testing’ and not recoil in a mix of disgust and horror. Now a necessity for any student wanting to go to college, standardized testing is a process, through tests in math, reading, science, etc., of weeding out the weak and intellectually uninclined to choose the strongest gladiator of test-takers, of whom colleges will throw money at, or perhaps even select out of the many other gladiators of many other schools to go to their prestigious ivy-league school. This description is a fairly transparent presenter of my thoughts about standardized testing, but these are made more out of personal experience than factual evidence. After all, this system must exist for a reason. Is it good for schools? What are the effects on students, teachers, test-making companies, and colleges? How did it come to be, and should it have this power over colleges at all?
This issue is compelling to me because I am directly involved with it. I recently have taken the ACT yet again this past weekend, which will mark the third time I have sat in a room for four hours and filled in bubbles. I believe myself to …show more content…

Standardized tests are also consistent and unbiased, with a great indicator of what one’s score will be without much room for extreme error, according to Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Educational Testing Program by Richard Phelps, Ph.D. on education-consumers.com. Standardized tests are also essentially irrelevant outside of the school system, as very, very few workplaces require the skills needed for standardized tests, outside of generic traits of determination. That one is a give

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