Arguments Against Standardized Testing

Majority: Standardized testing should not be the primary method of assessing student achievement and determining school funding. This is because students take classes throughout the school day, and the grades they get in those classes reflect growth and achievement, not all students try on standardized tests, kids that do try on standardized tests face increased stress, there are more ways to judge intelligence than the ability to do well on a standardized test. Standardized testing is something students know all too well. Throughout a normal school year, students at Norway High School take at least five standardized tests. Whether these standardized tests are a good thing or not depends on who you ask. Students constantly have to take hard …show more content…
The quizzes that students take are graded, which shows growth and achievement. The tests that students take are graded, which shows growth and achievement. Why should students have to go through all of this and then take standardized tests to show growth that these grades do not show? Not all students who take standardized tests try to take them. Researchers at NWEA say that about 16 percent of boys guess through 10 percent of the reading tests. If schools want students to try harder on these standardized tests, they need to do one of two things, they either need to incentivize doing well on the tests, or they need to have fewer tests that matter more. For students that try while taking standardized tests, stress increases. Stress increases because these students want to do well. Students who are trying on standardized tests are most likely trying to get into college. The SAT is one of the biggest standardized tests, with 1.9 million students taking it in 2023. Some students need a good SAT score to go to the colleges they want. This increases stress, students are thinking about their future, and by doing that they will think about what could happen if they do

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