Standardized Testing Rebuttal

Standardized Testing Rebuttal

by: Missy, Sharon, Kim, and Kelly

RebuttalRebuttal

• Standardized testing has been scrutinized by many critics.

• This presentation should clarify some misconstrued perceptions of standardized testing

RebuttalRebuttal• Some issues related to Standardized Testing

• 1. Assessment reform• 2. Standards• 3. Accountability

• http://www.ernweb.com/public/892.cfm

AssessmentAssessment

• Assessment reform has an influence on school curriculum . (Gulbahar H. Beckette and Lionel Brown.)

• Standardized Testing measures – Student performance– Encourage change

• In staff• Materials used to teach students

StandardsStandards

• All students, regardless of socioeconomic status, race or disability, should be expected to meet common standards that challenge them to acquire content and skills that are more than just minimum requirements. (http://www.ernweb.com/public/892.cfm).

• Survey done by National Board on Education states:– Teachers support State mandated test.– Feel test follows the curriculum all teachers should be

following.

AccountabilityAccountability

• Standardized testing accounts for what students are learning.

• Compare student performance

• Who should be accountable– Teachers and Administrators.– Don’t play the blame game

Consequences of Removing Objective

Accountability:Consequences of Removing Objective

Accountability:

• Social Promotion

• Remedial Programs in college

• Increase in teacher grading(The war against standardized testing, Richard P Phelps.)

“Teaching to the test”“Teaching to the test”

• As a result of the overvaluing of test results, the curriculum has narrowed.”(Nichols & Berliner, 2008)  Teachers are teaching to the test.

• “Standardized test are used diagnostically not to be used as a curriculum guide.”

• Teachers should create curriculum around what is going to be

tested.• Teachers should focus on

– Weaknesses.– Opportunities to excel.

http://www.education.uiowa.edu/resources/tep/employment/07p075folder/Standardized_testing.htm

Bias in Standardized testingBias in Standardized testing

• Standardized test are not meant to be biased

• The Writers- are members of multicultural and multiracial groups.

• Item Reviewer-look for unfair materials to minority groups

• Item sensitivity committee- represent minority groups and focus on educational assessment materials that might be unfair to minority groups.

Defending standardized testing By Richard P. Phelps( pg.100-101)

ConclusionConclusion

The test were created to assess what the students know, how they are being taught the material, and how they compare to other schools. The test are also given to see what schools need to work on, to set higher standards, to teach the students in a way that they will learn the material not just memorize it. The Goal should be to teach students the skills they will need to prosper in the future.

ReferencesReferences

Phelps Richard. Defending Standardized Testing. Retrieved September 4th,2009 from http://www.books.google.com/books/defending+standardized+testing

Views on Standardized Testing Retrieved from: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/resources/tep/employment/07p075folder/Standardized_testing.htm

• Pros and cons of NCLB: What the research says Retrieved from: http://www.ernweb.com/public/892.cfm

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner, Educational Leadership, March 2008, Vol. 65, No. 6

• Phelps, Richard(2003) Kill the Messenger: The War Against Standardized Testing: Retrieved September 8th 2009 from http://www.pilambda.org/horizons/v85-1/phelps.pdf