Standardized test: is a test administered and scored in a consistent manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent” and are "administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner."
Tests such as the ACT and SAT that provide college admission officers with a comparative standard for evaluating a student’s academic aptitude and likelihood of successes in college.
Can a test really tell if a person is going to be successful in college? In life? Should we measure the future of a person with a test?
Let me start by saying that as a student I hated standardized tests, they didn’t have anything to do with the curriculum. Most of the things we learned in class were useless when it was time to take these exams; teachers take weeks of important learning to get us in the mood of standardized tests like HSPA and others. These tests only measure the ability to answer multiple choice tests quickly.
Students get stressed out thinking that if they don’t pass this tests they wont graduate, they wont get accepted in college, so what’s the point of years of hard work doing homework, studying for tests, doing extra credit, asking for help if at the end everything its going to come down to a test? It won’t matter how good a person did throughout the school years because if they fell these tests they won’t be accepted to the college of their dreams.
As a future teacher I believe they are not fair, I have to be honest and say that I don’t think these exams help students. If we really think about it these tests do not measure how much a student knows, they don’t measure creativity, or ability to think. The only thing these tests measure is ability to choose what we believe is the right answer, in a timely manner.
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