I am a firm believer that a students attitude and effort should determine their success, not their test scores. Results of standardized tests should indicate the strengths of students rather than focusing on their weaknesses. In today's educational society, test scores are used to define students from the time they are in elementary school, to the time they are in graduate school. These students are tested more than students in any other country. Even though this is the case, test scores are still not "high enough" in the U.S.
Not only do test scores negatively affect students, they affect teachers and school districts as well. These test scores are thought to be an accurate assessment of how "good" a teacher is. Therefore, if students score high on standardized tests then they have a good teacher and if they score low on standardized tests, their teacher is bad. This is a very ignorant and elementary way of judging teachers.
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