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Standardized Testing Problem Speech Outline
Policy Proposition:
A federal law should be passed that eliminates the requirement for K-12 students in the United States to take standardized tests.
Definitions:
1. Standardized tests: A test administered and graded in a consistent manner.
a. In California, we’re mostly familiar with the STAR program that administers some large-scale standardized tests for our state.
2. No Child Left Behind Act: Law passed in 2001 that established a requirement for students to be tested in reading and math during grades 3-8 and one time in high school.
3. Teaching to the test: devoting extra time and attention in the classroom to the skills needed on standardized tests
Background:
1. When the No Child Left Behind Act was introduced in 2001, standardized testing became an important tool in evaluating both student and national progress in education. More pressure was put on students and teachers to perform well on these tests because it became the main way of determining a schools effectiveness.
2. In 2009, the Race to the Top program was introduced which would pit schools against each other, with the schools that have the best student test scores receiving increased funding.
3. The No Child Left Behind Act’s goal of reaching “100% proficiency on standardized tests by 2014” failed (ProCon.org).
4. In 2019, the Nation’s Report Card reported that in the last ten years proficiency scores in math and reading remained almost the same even though higher standards of academics were imposed (ProCon.org).
5. In March 2020, the Education Secretary temporarily waived the requirement for standardized tests for the 2019-20 school year due to the pandemic, stating that students should be “focused on staying healthy and continuing to learn” (ProCon.org).
Inherencies
Structural: Federal laws like the NCLB require standardized testing for students during most of their years in K through 12 education. An additional structural inherency that also should be noted is that there currently isn’t a law that mandates less standardized testing.
Attitudinal: According to a poll conducted by Education Next, 66% of parents and 67% of the general public support testing (Henderson) because they believe that it measures the performance of schools and students well.
Claims
1. High stakes testing has a negative effect on students’ mental health/performance
a. Because of the laws and programs that tie incentives and punishments into standardized tests, there is an increasing pressure on students to perform well on these tests. This leads to anxiety, stress, sleeplessness, and other health issues in young children.
b. A poll in 2019 by PDK international found that “50 percent of responding teachers see pressure on their kids to do well on tests” (Dean).
c. “A pediatrician reports witnessing an ‘incredible’ increase in anxiety over five years.” During heavy testing months, “she sees a new patient each day complaining of stomach ac ...
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MORE than Standardized Tests
Sammy North
DeVry University
MORE Than Standardized Tests
Brittany, an honors student in Atlanta, Georgia, had worked hard her entire academic career to celebrate what would be her proudest moment in high school: commencement. She wanted to walk across the stage to the flash of cameras and smiles of her family just like her classmates, and then journey off to a college in South Carolina where she had already been accepted. So she gathered her proud family members from Chicago and Washington, D.C., to come to share in her joy. Brittany watched as her classmates put on their caps and gowns, and walked across the stage to receive their diplomas. But she did not; she waited all during the day to get a last-minute waiver signed. She continued to wait through the night, but it never came. She began to realize that if she graduated, it would not be quick or easy. Her problem was that she had not passed one of four subject areas in the state’s graduation test, which students must pass to earn a regular diploma. She is not alone. Thousands of students, such as Brittany, every year do not make it across the stage at graduation due to failing these state tests. And many of them, such as Brittany, were honors students who had fulfilled all the other requirements of graduation except this one (Torres, 2010).
Stories such as this one are far too common and should not happen, and we have the power to change the status quo, so that no student should have to follow the same path as Brittany. This problem can be solved, though like Brittany’s case, it will be neither quick nor easy.
The purpose of this proposal on replacing standardized tests with end-of-year subject tests is to convince readers that changing assessments in education will improve education, and a strong educational system will result in several positive outcomes. The problems and their outcomes as well as the solution are the result of thorough research on these tests. Though I am a novice scholar, I will include several sources that will establish my credibility regarding standardized tests. The ideas of Hillocks (2002), McNeil and Valenzuela (2001), and Ravitch (2011), who are all experts on this topic, will help to establish my credibility.
Everyone is affected by the strength of our educational system, from the students and their ability to succeed in college and in the workplace, to the employers who hire them—and everyone in between. Every taxpayer is a stakeholder in education, because these tests are paid for by tax dollars, and the return on investment in education is not where it should be. Standardized tests should be abolished and replaced with end-of-year subject tests because they will save time and money, lead to increased mastery of core subjects, and diminish dropout rates.
Problem Analysis
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3. We must make our kids smarter!
Math
English
Science
We can’t let the Russians beat us!
4. The Federal Government decides
to step in with the NCLB Act……
President Bush signs into law in 2002
and re-authorizes the
Elementary & Secondary Education Act
of 1965, signed by
President Lyndon Johnson in 1965
5. Affected by this Act:
What students are taught
What tests they take
The training of teachers
The way money is generally spent on education
6. What do the States
have to do?
Set targets for 2 catagories:
Overall achievement
and
Specific Catagories of students,
(ex. economically disadvantaged students)
7. Overall Achievement
This is determined by how the the students
perform on standardized tests
Tests are taken and compared by grade levels;
it does not track the same students the following
year to see if there was improvement.
10. Measures educational
status and growth by
ethnicity, bridging the
gap between white and
minority students
Ignores important
subjects such as
history, arts, and
foreign languages
11. Focus on providing
education to students
with disabilities and
low-income families
States are able to
generate their own
standardized tests and
may make them easier
by incorporating more
multiple choice
questions
12. Annually, parents are
provided with a detailed
report of student
achievement
Requires students
to learn the same
material at the same
pace and take the
same test
13. Where are we now?
The original goal of 100 percent
proficiency by the school year 2013-2014
is upon us. We are far from reaching
that goal.
14. Quote from June 20, 2013 newspaper:
No Child Left Behind Revisited
WASHINGTON (AP)-
Members of the Republican-led House education panel are
sending their rewrite of No Child Left Behind to the full
House for a vote. The House Education and the Workforce
Committee on Wednesday finished work on a rewrite of the
sweeping education law. In the revised version, states
would have more authority and Education Secretary Arne
Duncan and his successors would have less. The
Republican update, which was branded the Student
Success Act, would allow state and local school chiefs to
decide if students are being well served. Democrats on the
panel objected to the proposed revision, saying it shirks
Washington’s role in guaranteeing support for poor and
minority students.