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  1. standardized testing.
  2. So what is standardized testing?
  3. Standardized testing is commonly known to evaluate the skill level
  4. and performance of students while also determining their intelligence.
  5. Although these standardized tests have been around for centuries now,
  6. it is strongly believed that in the present day they serve more harm
  7. than good as they do not comply with the unique struggles of individuals.
  8. They cause long term negative effects and they create segregation among students.
  9. The following presentation is a proposition to the United States
  10. to reduce significantly and perhaps even abolish standardized testing.
  11. Doing so will reduce stress and segregation among students and
  12. allow students to learn and perform at their own pace.
  13. The following three effects of standardized testing are evidence of
  14. why it should be significantly reduced and even abolished,
  15. standardized testing does not comply with students, unique struggles.
  16. Students face issues every day throughout their academic career,
  17. such as high levels of stress anxiety and even depression,
  18. frequent testing and assignments are all effects to this cause.
  19. However,
  20. when testing an individual with testing anxiety in a time manner
  21. that individual may feel pressured and perhaps intimidated by such test,
  22. enabling bad performance,
  23. it would be unfair to compare scores with a student who works well under pressure.
  24. The scores would be inaccurate since the levels
  25. of accommodation to our individual were not meant
  26. in the long run.
  27. Although standardized tests can range from 10 minutes to four hours,
  28. these tests can have a long,
  29. a longer affect them. That a lifelong one
  30. in the long run all this pressure may lead to depression, performing anxiety,
  31. regular anxiety and unhealthy levels of stress all this because of the test,
  32. the student may feel insufficient or disappointing
  33. as a child because of their score,
  34. Leading them to believe that it defines them for the rest of their lives.
  35. Standardized testing can severely damage an individual's self esteem,
  36. provoking them to limit their potential for the fear of not doing good.
  37. It may also lead to a lack of self esteem or self consciousness in the future.
  38. Academic segregation,
  39. although it may seem hard to believe or irrelevant
  40. segregation also takes place in schools and unfortunately academic performance
  41. is one of the reasons discrimination seen among students
  42. and schools all around the United States encourage this.
  43. Students are split into smart classes and regular or basic ones which
  44. individuals belong to what classes is determined by this test scores.
  45. This ties back to our first two past effects
  46. taking to consideration a student that barely passed their test
  47. because they do not perform well under pressure and stress
  48. the student may not do so well,
  49. but this does not mean that the student is less developed or incapable.
  50. Additionally, the same student will be placed in a regular slash basic class
  51. because their score determined this
  52. mistakes like this happen all the time.
  53. And unfortunately a lot of students require
  54. academic validation in order to feel sufficient,
  55. just like others whose bad scores were accurate,
  56. may feel the need to be in a smart class in order to be academically validated.
  57. This triggers segregation among students because students will create academic
  58. social classes and those in the smart ones will start
  59. to believe they are better than others or excluding students
  60. because they are not in the same academic social class.
  61. Mhm.
  62. Here is a detailed plan to abolish standardized testing.
  63. First send an announcement to schools all around the United States. Mandating the
  64. stop of this form of testing.
  65. Instead create a form of survey to evaluate how
  66. much a student learned throughout the school year.
  67. Scores will remain anonymous and learning afterwards will continue
  68. to remain in the classroom based on what scored
  69. the lowest teachers will focus more on that area
  70. and will be able to teach at their students pace
  71. and execute
  72. to only reduce standardized testing.
  73. First highlight which exams are essential and
  74. absolutely demand a torrey towards student success,
  75. allow students more time towards testing,
  76. provides snacks or mental breaks and remind the students that
  77. this test does not define them and finally execute.
  78. So where are we?
  79. Mhm.
  80. Mhm.
  81. The Washington post states,
  82. the average student in America's big city public schools take some 112
  83. mandatory standardized tests between prekindergarten and
  84. the end of the 12th grade.
  85. An average about eight a year. The study says
  86. that heats up between 20 and 25 hours every school year. The study says.
  87. As for the results, they often overlap on top of all that.
  88. Our teacher written tests sometimes taken by students along
  89. with standardized tests in the very same subject.
  90. Yeah,
  91. That is 112 exams that compare unique students abilities,
  92. 112 exams that dictate to what academic class you belong.
  93. 112 exams
  94. that determine whether students will be successful or not.
  95. Standardized testing has its costs and benefits.
  96. Some costs may mean eliminating the
  97. opportunity to stimulate under pressure situations.
  98. Additionally, standardized testing often pushes students to learn the material.
  99. Abolishing standardized testing would essentially
  100. prejudice eyes memory enhancement.
  101. Another cost of this matter would be reducing the effectiveness.
  102. Critical thinking evaluations may bring
  103. on the other hand, it would also remove,
  104. yeah.
  105. Mhm.
  106. Academic segregation among students decrease the chances of trauma.
  107. Standardized testing main could introduce an accurate
  108. results because of the pressure to some abolishing
  109. this form of testing would encourage accuracy to
  110. those who cannot function well under pressure.
  111. Yeah.
  112. Yeah.
  113. Yeah.
  114. With all being said,
  115. standardized testing causes more harm than good as they are in aggregate,
  116. segregating and principles too long lasting effects
  117. to fix this.
  118. It is encouraged that the United States reduced
  119. significantly and perhaps even abolish standardized testing as this
  120. will reduce stress levels and students while allowing them
  121. to learn effectively and at their own pace.
  122. Keep in mind
  123. that without standardized testing,
  124. students can learn and develop at their own pace.
  125. Every student is unique. Rather than having students memorize material.
  126. Teachers would have the chance to truly teach and help students learn,
  127. retain and engage, rather than simply memorize.