- Negative effects of standardized testing
- Outline
- Thesis
- Although standardized test depicts some advantage, there are more disadvantages when applying it in the school learning curriculum.
- Introduction
- The main reason for using the standardized test in the school curriculum is to judge the performance of students. Professionals use the test to determine the proficiency of students among their peers. Professionals also use the results of standardized test to evaluate the performance of teachers. Standardized testing is a subject that results to various arguments because many people consider it as the best way of assessing students’ ability while others oppose this view. Some of the methods used in the test include placing students in to different learning groups and then evaluate what their performance. The other method of performing the test is ranking the schools amongst others in a certain geographical region. Although standardized test depicts some advantage, there are more disadvantages when applying it in the school learning curriculum.