Post #3

I am now on my third post, which means i've explored deeper about my topic. And of course more research leads to more questions. I discovered two articles that had great facts and found them super useful with great information. The two articles are, The Important Things Standardized Test Don't Measure and  Study Says Standardized Testing Is Overwhelming Nation's Public Schools.




In the article The Important Things Standardized Test Don't Measure Jeb Bush, Bill Gates, Lou Gerstner, and Arne Duncan talk about how using the numbers on standardized tests to frame the life chances of students, decide on the reputation of teachers according to the scores, judge the excellence of school administrators, and decide wether a public school or a private school is more convenient. Do you guys see how standardized tests not only measure a students ability but also doesn't measure the importance of other things? Realizing how much it limits the teacher's abilities to educate the students according to their needs and differences because the scores are not accurate is super useless. The importance on how much needless stress it causes the student during the time when the test is being taken, and taking over causing a low score. And this could be a straight A, high GPA student. So are these tests testing how much anxiety can take over a student when taking a test rather than testing the students abilities?

In the article Study Says Standardized Testing Is Overwhelming Nation's Public Schools Michael Casserly states "you've got multiple actors requiring, urging and encouraging a variety of tests for very different reasons that don't necessarily add up to a clear picture of how our kids are doing." That's exactly what's happening, at the end of the day students know a lot more than what's written on that test. Their abilities aren't defined by sitting down in a classroom desk with death silence circling an A, B, C, or D answer.


Both articles talk about the way standardized test are taken and what they include. Which would only be the a,b,c and d answers, where students have to be sitting down circling, in a certain amount of time. That is why these two articles agree, that the scores are not reliable, measure a students' ability nor do they help a teacher know what to help the student with next, in order to help him or her succeed.




-https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/01/the-important-things-standardized-tests-dont-measure/?utm_term=.814c6e7913a2 

-https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-says-standardized-testing-is-overwhelming-nations-public-schools/2015/10/24/8a22092c-79ae-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html?utm_term=.07b68c6dca69