Science and standardized testing blog 7

There are many concerns about standardized testing that people have. These concerns are nothing new to education, but with the NCLB act in place more people are speaking out about standardized testing's failures. To be fair I am also looking at the pro arguments of standardized testing.

Positives of Standardized tests:

practical

• less time consuming
• easier to administer
• easier to grade
• easier to track progress of students by group and subject

objective

• A machine is unbiased towards the test taker

Negatives of Standardized Tests:

Bias

• tests are biased in favor of students whose culture and upbringing closely resemble that of the test makers: white middle class males

over all purpose

• to rank students, teachers, and schools
• requirement to label successes and failures
• measure learning in just a small time frame

references: http://homepage.eircom.net/~seaghan/articles/10.htm

https://www.msu.edu/~youngka7/testing.html