This week is ISASP week which means lots of testing. High school students in general don’t like these tests, and they can cause lots of stress and mental problems. But the real question is do these tests that we take every spring even affect us? Do we, as the students, really need to take these tests to see how well we are learning?
Both sides of this argument for and against standardized testing have lots to say. First let's look at for standardized testing. Lots of people say that standardized testing helps students and teachers. This can help teachers by telling them what they need to do better next year for teaching. With students, this can tell them what classes they might have struggled in. Another way they could help students is they can see how they learn the best and from whom. Students can see where their strengths and weaknesses are in school and how to work with and around those to excel in academics.
But on the other hand, these tests that take at least an hour or more for most students and can cause lots of stress and might not even give adequate data. When taking these tests, students can possibly get anxious or stressed because they put a lot of pressure on themselves to do well. They can have test anxiety and this can make the data skewed, which would mean that there is no point in even taking them. Because we aren’t given good data this would mean that every year they aren’t teaching the right things to students.
In my opinion we should have some sort of testing but not standardized tests. I believe that they don’t do much for our education and there are other ways that students can get adequate data to better their learning experience. Such as: giving sample questions, this way students don’t have to take hour long tests. This would give better results and data for the states to teach us better. Another way could be just looking at students grades throughout the year.
Questions:
Do you think that these tests help us learn better?
Would you rather take sample tests or standardized test?
Do you think that your ISASP score reflects how well you are learning?
https://standardizedtests.procon.org/
https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/opting-out-of-standardized-testing-what-to-know
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I think that the information that the students gain from standardized tests is the exact same as what they gain from semester tests but the semester tests have motivation of getting a good grade but there is no reward for getting good scores on standardized tests. I think that they need to at least break it up into double the tests over a longer time, then there would be less stress and no different schedule. I do not think that ISASP scores reflect what teacher teach because they don't even know what will be on it so it could be something that hasn't been taught at all.
I agree, semester tests give good information but this way it affects our grade so we are more motivated to get a good grade at the end of the semester. But this may cause more stress than ISASP because those don't affect us as much. Which is why we shouldn't need to take them because they cause stress and don't give good data.
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