What Is Your Opinion on Standardized Testing? Are they biased and non-sense?

Question

It's that time of year again. Schools are giving those tests to see if the students learn anything in 2006-2007. You know principals will go haywire if the students do not do well and the teacher will be put on the spot. Are schools teaching how to take a test or teaching the basic skills of Reading and Math? Schools placed on probation because the students do not score very well but they have knowledge to go to college and have a sucessful career. What have teaching and learning become?

Answer 1

Standardized Test is biased. Every human being is given a special talent, intelligence. It is not right to test ones intelligence. Intelligence can be improved by learning, not by testing.

Answer 2

Note to 'ishi: The tests we're talking about do not measure intelligence; they test knowledge, and testing knowledge is highly appropriate.

That said, schools and administrators do not go 'haywire' over the poor results of tests because - by and large - there is no penalty for poor performance. Indeed, in Texas, it takes only 25% - 50% of the students taking the test to pass in order to garner an Acceptable rating.

No, they don't get excited over poor performance because there is little incentive to do better.

OTOH, many of the graduating students do not have the knowledge to move on to college, and the dreaded tests prove this out.

The direct answer to your question is yes, the tests are biased toward those who were successfully inspired to learn. Conversely (and perhaps paradoxically), they are not biased against those who have not learned the material.

Answer 3

The issue is not the Tests or the Teachers!

The issue is the Home! How many parents take their child to the library? How many JR & Sr students go to the library or READ for fun?

How many parents, not only ask if the home work is done, but, from time to time, sit with their child and go over the homework?

Football, baseball or basket ball gets played,
the Cheerleaders shake their butts. Who does homework? We will not even go into learning the subject matter!

Computer games are purchased and played, but learn something from School?

Bad parenting/not parenting, lazy, I don't need to know that, students! These are the real issues! If you KNOW the subject matter, then the tests just verifies it. If you don't, that comes out also!

Do you want a easy example of what tests prove?

Take a bible, ask any one in your peer group to read any consective lines. Close the book and ask them what the lines meant. Not try to repeate the lines, just, What did the lines mean? You can use any book, and see what level the reading comphersen is at!