Standardized Testing?

This is the time of year that we are testing our children. We are giving standardized exams which many teachers have taught to all year long. Many children get worked up and stressed out about these exams because no one explains that they are simply a joke. Yes they are a joke that these students need to pass but, they do not comment on a child’s IQ in any way at all. This past week I interviewed a 7^th grander going to Kopachuck middle school and she brought up testing. She said “standardized testing was stressful but, it is not really meant for me it is just a way the school is evaluated” for a thirteen year old that is pretty impressive; in any case though she is the minority when it comes to that knowledge.

Why is standardized testing still in the forefront of how we evaluate our children in the classroom? There are many sources that say this type of testing is doing students no good at all. Every child learns differently and they could be brilliant in the classroom; then they take an exam and fail miserably because they clamed up. Something needs to be done about changing the way we evaluate our children.

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