Standardized Testing: Unnecessary Pressure On Students

Standardized testing puts unnecessary pressure on students and does not have any real benefits to helping students learn better. Standardized testing places all students in the same category of intelligence and does not show the individual’s true potential. Schools spend weeks before the test are administered to prepping students, so students will not fail. If standardized testing was a method that worked well children would not weeks of classroom time to prepare for the test. If the tests were organized according to the right age group it would not take hours to prep students they would already have the information necessary to perform well on the test. Standardized testing are somewhat of a very secretive system that the teachers do not

Students are pressured not to miss testing days, even if they are sick because they cannot make up the tests. If children go to school sick, they are not going to perform well on the test. Sometimes children suffer from loss of sleep due to test anxiety, and parents are put under greater pressure from all the intense hours of testing their children are subjected to during the day. It often happens that children lose recess time due to testing and the child is forced to complete the tests. In some situations children do not test well due to test anxiety their minds can draw a blank and they freeze up during the test. Children should not be subjected to hours of unnecessary testing, when teachers can test them in the classroom using the curriculum that they are already being taught. Individual testing allows teachers to see the true performance of each child over the course of the year, so they can help the child where they need the most help academically. Children are not put under so much pressure when regular testing is done in the class instead of doing intense standardized testing on