Standardized_Testing

Standardized Testing Standardized Testing: Are they Beneficial' Standardized testing is very common statewide for determining the students’ academic knowledge starting form K-12 grade. But what does these score tells us' Are they academically smart because they have high score' Or what if the student maintains good grades working hard in school but receive bad scores on these tests' There are many ambiguous answers to these questions. Standardized testing is bias based on minorities and financially separates the advantage student from higher-income families to score higher than lower income families. These testing also drive excellent teachers away from their profession. However, the question still remains: what does these results tell us how kids are learning' There is a great improvement of students with their scores but there is still a big barrier between minority student such as Latinos and blacks with white students. According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. In comparison, white student’s score jumped 11 points for verbal and 18 points higher in math during the same time interval. standardized, testing, students, test, student, school, score, teachers, tests, minority, minorities, because, preparation, journal, higher, very, there’s, scores, points, out, much, help, having, gap, financially, families, california, big, best, white, universities, time, students’, sat, receive