Standardized tests

By: Luke Moore

My Stance

 I believe that standardized test should

be eliminated from schools or at least
reduce the number of them
 Standardized test don’t accurately
asses students knowledge
 Many students haven’t had the full
opportunity to succeed because a
standardized test categized them
incorreclty
Opposing argument

 Standardized tests are needed for

comparisons to be made among
schools in regards to student
achievement
Why don’t
standardized test
accurately asses
students Knowledge?
 All students learn and test differently so to
give everyone the same test isn’t fair to
students with special circumstances.
 Students can not be accurately assed if they
cheated
 The Chicago teachers union has written a
position paper which relates high stakes tests
to the education achievement gap, the
inability to adequately measure knowledge,
the waste of instruction time with negative
impacts on student learning, and testing
scandals
Missing opportunities

 It is common for a young student with

promising potential to be prevented
from being in the accelerated program
because of standardized test scores
Ex: a young boy was not put in the
accelerated program at his elementary
school, even though he showed great
potential, but because his IQ score wasn’t
high enough couldn’t be a part of it
(Glaser).
What to do?

 Of course eliminating all standardized

test at once would cause chaos, so my
solution would be to slowly fizzle out
standardized tests and start to focus
on class room ability