Essays on Standardized Testing

An article I found online encourages colleges to focus more on a student’s creativity obtained from extracurricular activities versus a standardized test score. Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence focuses around the idea that intelligence comes from three different skills: analytical, practical, and creative. Most IQ tests or the SAT seem to only focus on the…

According to Albert Einstein, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” This is exactly the case with standardized testing, a method of consistent multiple-choice testing that is the same throughout, including the time allowed…

In cognition, stress is defined as the state of mental or emotional strain resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. Moreover, stress has a double-sided effect, with one aspect supplying the negative, such as mood and behavior declines, while the positive aspect “tends to facilitate cognitive function, particularly in implicit memory,” which uses past experiences in…

Wasserberg and Rottman (2016), stated, throughout the years many students have felt incapable of finishing school due to their results from standardized test. They also, said out of all the teachers surveyed seventy-seven percent agreed that standardized test takes up most of their time from teaching and allowing the students to learn. Chu, Babenko, Cui,…

As the third most populous country in the world, the American educational system is posed with a large and challenging task: schooling millions of children, and raising the next generation of American adults. The establishment of this system is, by some means, miraculous, and its history is considerably rapid and storied. However, as long as…

Notice to all students: The PSAT, SAT, and ACT are all coming up! These terms will send any students racing home to study and to pray to the standardized testing gods for luck to pass these tests. When a student asks a teacher or counselor what they need to get into a good college. More…

There are many factors that go into the reason why there is an achievement gap. Some of the factors are family life, socio economic, teacher involvement with students, behavioral issues, education being secondary to making money and how people focus on short term goals of being paid versus investment on the future. The achievement gap…

No matter what path we choose, we can never escape the reality of taking tests; there are different versions of them everywhere we go. Ranging from driving tests, standardized tests, even tests for the careers we want to pursue. Students believe once they leave school they would be free from this imprisonment, however it never…

How many of you had recess when you were in primary or elementary school? According to “The Benefits of Recess”, starting in the 1990’s, schools and legislators agreed that it was more important for a student to do well in their classes and on standardized testing based on their opinions, rather than listen to scientific…

Every year around winter time, students start to stress about something all juniors worry about, the SAT/ACT, a three hour test that determines what college you could go to. The harsh reality that students have to face is that not everyone is great at testing. People who have learning disabilities are at a disadvantage. Dyslexia…