Standardized Testing Ruining Education

Standardized Testing: Improving or Hurting Education. “Standardized test can't measure initiative, creativity, imagination, conceptual thinking, curiosity, effort, irony, judgment, commitment, nuance, good will, ethical reflection, or a host of other valuable dispositions and attributes. What they can measure and count are isolated skills, specific facts and function, the least interesting and least significant aspects of learning.” Standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a standard manner. In 1959 the ACT were offered for the first time. Large groups had started testing in 1970. Testing had gone assess in America in the 1080's. Standardized test is a common way to measure a students academic level and potential. The

Schools will have an objective to meet and will improve what the students learn. Don W. Hooper says that educational systems that use objective standards to measure student achievement are highly effective (146). If schools have goals and they meet the goals students are going to learn. “Schools that set predetermined goals for student success and that monitor progress through standardized testing boost academic performance.”(Hooper, 146). Standardized testing measures what a students learns in school through out the year. “Although not perfect, we believe standardized test scores to be the best scores available indicator of student learning and performance.”(Stevens and sessions 171). It doesn't threat the validity of scores from what the children are learning. Jeremy D. Visone says that however, the impact of the readability of test items is not often considered a threat to a test's validity (47). Standardized testing should be improving students

They can't be as creative than they should be. “Teaching and learning are personal, individual, and unique and also inseparable from who we are and from our lives away from the classroom.”(Miltich, 152). Standardized testing is not having the students using their imagination. “Assessments has failed to capture the imagination of most teachers because the promise of improved instruction can't come true is assessment is the means for making it happen. (Miltich, 153).Students are not going to get a real world experience through a test. “Standardized test covers to much superficially and didn't get close enough to what students know and understand.”(Perrone). Students are not getting the skills that they need in