What Are The Pros And Cons Of A Standardized Test Argumentative Essay

Standardized Test are not helping students perform in school or out of school in anyway or possible manner. Students should not be required to take theses unnecessary test to provide evidence for school boards to see if the schools are teaching or not. Standardized Test has it reasons though.It helps teachers in the school board know what needs to be taught and what doesnt.

Standardized test help high school students get into the college of their choice. The author notes ¨Research and experience show that standardized tests are generally good at measuring students’ knowledge, skills, and understanding because they are objective, fair, efficient, and comprehensive. For these reasons, they are used for decisions about admissions to colleges,

graduate programs, and professional schools as well as qualification and licensing for many skilled occupations and demanding professions such as law and medicine.¨(Walberg). As the author stated students can really have a big opportunity through standardized test. The author states ¨If standardized test are misused, of course, the program and students learning may be defective. When standardized tests are used appropriately, a great deal can be learned about how well schools function. That information allows educators and policymakers to make better informed conclusions about how much students are learning, which in turn allows them to make better-informed decisions about improving programs.¨(Walberg). Not only does this help students in the future it also helps teachers improve their teaching by showing them what needs to be learned and what doesn't need to be learned. Even though Standardized Test has its achievements however it also has its downfalls.

Standardized Test are useless throughout students time in school, rather it be high school or elementary.

The author demonstrates ¨As psychometrician Daniel Koretz puts it, scores on a standardized test ´usually do not provide a direct and complete measure of educational achievement.´ He cites two reasons why this is so, and both are related to our earlier discussions of sampling. First, test can measure only a portion of the goals of education, which are necessarily broader and more inclusive than the test could possibly be...¨(Harris). Standardized test doesn't measure the things students will use in everyday life such as creativity, critical thinking, resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, and leadership. The author also claims ¨The second reason Kortez cities for the incompleteness of test scores as a measure of achievement [is as follows]: ´Even in assessing the goals that can be measured well, tests are generally very small samples of behavior that we use to make estimates of students´ mastery of very large domains of knowledge and skill¨(Harris). As the author stated above standardized test have no real purpose in schools. Standardized test doesn't show the educational level of the student but shows how much the school isn't teaching or if being taught the students aren't really grasping the

concept.

In conclusion Standardized Test shows that it's two ways it can be taken. One, it can help schools all over the world know what needs to be taught and helps the teachers improve their teaching habits. Secondly, there's the opposite side of it all which means standardized test should not be required to take and it's a waste of school time because 34.1% of high school students will not attend college.