We also have come to recognize that merely by changing principals, school scores can rise or fall dramatically. This phenomenon suggests that the synergy created by high-quality leadership (or the dysfunction of bad leadership) may have a significant impact on teacher ratings.
schools that have good leaders plan way in advance for these tests.
Of course, the tests are problematic for students as well as teachers. Just one example: Standardized tests are generally given in the spring, disrupting weeks of learning.
students cant learn what they are supposed to learn if all focus is on the standardized test
Fourth, the tests are too narrow in scope. They largely focus on math and reading, which obscures the value of elementary teachers who do a great job teaching history, science or music, and makes evaluation of secondary teachers of non-tested subjects like "apples" in comparison with math and English teacher "oranges."
all teachers are not skilled in teaching what is on the tests
Teachers oppose the tests because they radically limit their ability to adapt to learner differences; encourage use of threats, bribes, and other extrinsic motivators; wrongly assume that what the young will need to know in the future is already known; emphasize minimum achievement to the neglect of maximum performance; create unreasonable pressures to cheat.
teachers have to find ways to motivate students and themselves for these tests
Teachers oppose the tests because they provide minimal to no useful feedback; are keyed to a deeply flawed curriculum adopted in 1893; lead to neglect of physical conditioning, music, art, and other, non-verbal ways of learning; unfairly advantage those who can afford test prep; hide problems created by margin-of-error computations in scoring; penalize test-takers who think in non-standard ways.
the tests dont teach anything useful.
Teachers (at least the ones the public should hope their taxes are supporting) oppose the tests because they focus so narrowly on reading and math that the young are learning to hate reading, math, and school; because they measure only “low level” thinking processes; because they put the wrong people — test manufacturers — in charge of American education; because they allow pass-fail rates to be manipulated by officials for political purposes; because test items simplify and trivialize learning.
students get tired of taking the same tests over and over again.
As the American education system continues to place more emphasis on standardized testing to measure academic achievement, critics have argued that it can be more harmful than helpful to students’ development in the long run.
Forcing tests on students is not helpful to their development or character building
Even though the public supports testing and accountability, many worry that there is excessive testing, burdening teachers and students.
Teachers and students are overwhelmed with standardized testing.
Some observers have found that teaching informed by the test focuses the curriculum on essential content and skills, eliminates activities that don’t produce learning gains, and motivates teachers and students to exert more effort.
Testing moves the focus of the students and the teachers to just the test and nothing else.
In the classroom, every teacher grades differently, with different standards for evaluation. When all admissions committees can see is the overall GPAs, nuances between teachers with lower and higher expectations are lost. As such, standardized testing acts as somewhat of an equalizing force, providing colleges with the only relatively objective data point with which to compare prospective students.
Standardized testing is used to put all students in the same category but on different levels.
When a problem exists in Philadelphia schools, it generally exists in other large urban schools across the nation. One of those problems—shared by districts in New York, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, and other major cities—is that many schools don’t have enough money to buy books.
Most urban school districts dont have enough money to buy the proper books for the students to have the information they need.
“My daughter is not allowed to bring her textbook home because they don’t want it to get lost.”
Some schools restrict learning by keeping the resources at school and not fully allowing home exposure.
This is because standardized tests are not based on general knowledge. As I learned in the course of my investigation, they are based on specific knowledge contained in specific sets of books: the textbooks created by the test makers.
The standardized tests are biased and if students dont hav the proper resources they most likely wont be able to pass the test.
The study found no correlation between the amount of testing in a district and the way its students perform on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test given every two years that is the only consistent measure of student achievement across state lines.
The amount of tests a student takes does not determine how well they will do on other tests.
Testing tends to be concentrated between February and May. The council’s study found numerous examples of redundancy, with students often taking an end-of-course test, an Advanced Placement test and a final exam for the same course.
The tests are scheduled too close together and this could be overwhelming for student that have to take more than one test.
Standardized testing has caused intense debate on Capitol Hill as lawmakers work to craft a replacement for No Child Left Behind. Testing critics tried unsuccessfully to erase the federal requirement that schools test in math and reading. Civil rights advocates pushed back, arguing that tests are an important safeguard for struggling students because publicly reported test scores illuminate the achievement gap between historically underserved students and their more affluent peers.
The government is very involved with the standardized testing requiements and many people are for and others against it .
Standardized tests are an imprecise measure of teacher performance, yet they are used to reward and punish teachers.
Teachers could be doing anything to teach the students how to perform on the tests but its all up to the student to pass or fail the test.
Standardized tests measure only a small portion of what makes education meaningful.
The test becomes the main focus of the school and most other things that can help students in their personal lives or careers becomes irrelevant.
Failures in the education system have been blamed on rising poverty levels, teacher quality, tenure policies, and increasingly on the pervasive use of standardized tests.
Different aspects effect how students perform on the standardized tests, not just the things that happen in school.
Such relative inferences about a student's status with respect to the mastery of knowledge and/or skills in a particular subject area can be quite informative to parents and educators. For example, think about the parents who discover that their 4th grade child is performing really well in language arts (94th percentile) and mathematics (89th percentile), but rather poorly in science (39th percentile) and social studies (26th percentile). Such information, because it illuminates a child's strengths and weaknesses, can be helpful not only in dealing with their child's teacher, but also in determining at-home assistance. Similarly, if teachers know how their students compare with other students nationwide, they can use this information to devise appropriate classroom instruction.
While the tests are helpful in some ways, they won't be effective if the student has poor test taking skills overall.
Standardized aptitude tests predict how well students are likely to perform in some subsequent educational setting.
Tests in college are not the same as tests in high school so I say that the aptitude tests shouldn't be used to determine how well a student will do in a different educational setting.
The folks who create standardized achievement tests are terrifically talented. What they are trying to do is to create assessment tools that permit someone to make a valid inference about the knowledge and/or skills that a given student possesses in a particular content area
The expectation of the people who make the tests may not match what every student that has taken the test has learned in their individual classrooms.
Standardized testing doesn't measure all the things a student needs to be successful in the real world.
There is too much emphasis put on the test and not enough in other areas of teaching and learning. The students learn more about what is on the test and less of other important things.
Different students learn different things in different ways so standardized testing can't determine how intelligent every student is.
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The "pink slime" is very unhealthy and it could lead to health problems for the children
The schools obviously don't care about the well being of the students, they just want to use what is cheap.