Standardized Testing Argumentative Essay

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Imagine learning all the lessons you needed to learn during the school year. Than by the end of the year that Standardized Test comes around and everyone gets nervous. When you thoroughly think the test through you think it will be easy because you learned everything that you needed to know for that school year. But when the test comes out and you take it you know basically a majority of the answers but then there's about 20 questions about topics you haven't learned and you're forced to know them at that point. This kind of situation is normal for all students. If you ask a student if they like taking standardized testing 9/10 would say they don't like it. It is a serious problem with having to take these state tests, with some of the questions based around something you have never heard of or a topic you've never heard of. Schools …show more content…

Students will be less stressed about the test because they don't have to take it. According to Sarah Garland, she states that, “The tests aren't reliable” (Garland.) She also said, “Schools spend too much time prepping for the tests” (Garland.) Also, with the one percent of students who enjoy taking standardized testing or are not bothered by standardized testing were proven to have gotten better grades on the test compared to the students who don't enjoy taking the tests. For example, 64% of students fail standardized tests compared to only 36% of students who actually pass the test. That just goes to show that standardized tests aren't very reliable because of many students failing the test. If the test was easy to trust their would be more people passing than people failing, but in this case it has more people failing than people passing. Standardized Tests are not reliable. A 2001 study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and "caused by fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in

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