In the case of standardize tests; I feel that they should be done away with. One test should not be the main component of what colleges consider when they are accepting new students. While I understand the basis behind standardize tests in which everyone is level, I feel that students grades and grade point averages should be held higher than SAT scores for it is a better reflection of their actual intelligence. Many students, including myself, do not test well under pressure and felt that their SAT scores were not a good reflection of our actual knowledge . Standardize tests do not show how much effort a person puts into their work. It does not show the times they have stayed after school for help or how many times they participated in class. There are many people who did well on their standardize test but really have not absorbed and taken the knowledge to heart like others have. The reason for learning is relay what you learn to your real life. Standardize tests focus on certain subjects that those higher up decide is important, but these topics are not always going to be vital to someone’s life later on. Due to standardize tests teachers are made to teach what is required of them. Instead of having class discussions on important issues in the world today and other topics vital to your adult life, students are taught math and science equations they will never use. By teaching for a test, the teachers feel more pressure and the pressure converts to the kids. This pressure stresses the students out and makes them resent learning.
I feel that Freiere would agree in that standardize tests should be done away with. The teachers are teaching what is required of them, which relates to his rules that state, “ the teacher teaches and the students are taught”, “ the teachers chooses and enforces his choice and the students comply” and “ the teacher chooses the program content and the students adapt it to”. Freiere feels that it is wrong for the teachers to just teach and the students to listen. There is no way for people to benefit this way, by interacting and learning relevant and important topics, the students will absorb the information more and it will be more useful. I feel that Freiere and many others would agree that getting rid of standardize testing would in the end benefit students greatly. Teachers will have slightly more freedom to teach more beneficial topics and students are more likely to pay attention and thus do better in school.
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I agree with the post to this topic. Standardized tests do not tell a college everything that you have learned in the past years that have lead up to this test. I believe that it is a completely unfair system of testing in which there are many ways that the test tries to trick its students. At the test prep classes for the SAT’s and ACT’s the teachers help the students figure out how to work around the tricks to the questions. In response to the comment about how school’s should not only be looking at what scores student receive on those test’s, many colleges have began to ignore the scores from these test, because of the recent writing section that was added. The college of the Holy Cross recently got rid of the requirement scores for the SAT’s because they did not know how to judge the writing section, so student are judged on academic success and clubs and organizations alones. I believe that this is the best was to judge a student because I do not do well in standardized tests. I believe that my answer may be never right, and always doubt my answer if there is another possible answer that I can choose.
I agree with the post to this topic. Standardized tests do not tell a college everything that you have learned in the past years that have lead up to this test. I believe that it is a completely unfair system of testing in which there are many ways that the test tries to trick its students. At the test prep classes for the SAT’s and ACT’s the teachers help the students figure out how to work around the tricks to the questions. In response to the comment about how school’s should not only be looking at what scores student receive on those test’s, many colleges have began to ignore the scores from these test, because of the recent writing section that was added. The college of the Holy Cross recently got rid of the requirement scores for the SAT’s because they did not know how to judge the writing section, so student are judged on academic success and clubs and organizations alones. I believe that this is the best was to judge a student because I do not do well in standardized tests. I believe that my answer may be never right, and always doubt my answer if there is another possible answer that I can choose.
I agree with the post to this topic. Standardized tests do not tell a college everything that you have learned in the past years that have lead up to this test. I believe that it is a completely unfair system of testing in which there are many ways that the test tries to trick its students. At the test prep classes for the SAT’s and ACT’s the teachers help the students figure out how to work around the tricks to the questions. In response to the comment about how school’s should not only be looking at what scores student receive on those test’s, many colleges have began to ignore the scores from these test, because of the recent writing section that was added. The college of the Holy Cross recently got rid of the requirement scores for the SAT’s because they did not know how to judge the writing section, so student are judged on academic success and clubs and organizations alones. I believe that this is the best was to judge a student because I do not do well in standardized tests. I believe that my answer may be never right, and always doubt my answer if there is another possible answer that I can choose.
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