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    1) Elementary school officials are pushing governments and school boards to reduce standardized testing for young students. Some schools have already benefited from less testing, and it has helped students tremendously. 2) President Obama wants to limit standardized testing to only 2% of classroom time and focus more on learning than test scores. However, more testing does not necessarily improve education. 3) Standardized tests can negatively impact students' self-esteem and cause them to stress over a single test grade rather than their actual classroom performance. Grading formulas should consider overall student work, not just test scores.

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    1) Elementary school officials are pushing governments and school boards to reduce standardized testing for young students. Some schools have already benefited from less testing, and it has helped students tremendously. 2) President Obama wants to limit standardized testing to only 2% of classroom time and focus more on learning than test scores. However, more testing does not necessarily improve education. 3) Standardized tests can negatively impact students' self-esteem and cause them to stress over a single test grade rather than their actual classroom performance. Grading formulas should consider overall student work, not just test scores.

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    August Cribb
    DeBock
    November 10, 2016
    English 4
    Service Hours Research Paper
    Elementary schools around the U.S are beginning to reach out to governments and school
    boards concerning standardized testing. Little has yet to be done, but school officials are
    continuing to push for less tests for young students. Some elementary schools have already been
    helped by the government and the students in those areas have benefitted tremendously.
    Therefore, the government should reduce the amount of standardized tests given to elementary
    students.
    President Obama wants to put more emphasis on learning rather than test scores explains
    Axelrod. He believes that learning should not just be based on if you get a test correction right or
    wrong. Axelrod states that Obama is trying to limit testing time to be only 2 percent of classroom
    time. Teachers have told Obama that these standardized tests have driven out the fun of teaching
    and they are made to teach by the book. Results from a survey showed no evidence that more
    testing improves a childs education claims Axelrod. Hopefully government will have a better
    control over standardized testing in the future.
    Kilbride claims that some states are going to stop acknowledging a student's grade on a
    a through f scale, because it can bring a student's educational self esteem down. When a
    student is graded solely on a state test, they will be more worried on that single grade rather than
    their actual performance in class. Barker in Kilbrides article explains, The grading formula is
    overly based on test results and other indicators that haven't been made clear. It is still

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    important to grade students on their performance, but it should not just be based off of one big
    test. According to Ritzler in Kilbrides article, the formula for grading should be based on
    student learning and not on just a single test grade. It should be an overall grade of their work in
    class on a day to day basis.
    A parent learns about standardized testing and that their child is more than just a score.
    Students take on average 133 standardized testing from kindergarten to 12th grade explains
    Kamenetz. Some parents believe that anxiety is solely driven out from standardized testing.
    Kamenetz states that one leading cause of anxiety is that these tests are slowly making students
    hate school due to stress.Even though some stress can be beneficial to a student, too much or the
    wrong kind of stress can damage a childs educational growth. Kamenetz explains that anxiety
    can also be seen from teachers because they are trying to teach their students to pass these tests
    with loopholes, shortcuts, and hints. They are not actually learning the correct criteria when they
    are being taught these tricks to pass.
    Lawmakers are looking for ways to limit the number of standardized test, but still hold
    students and teachers accountable for their progress claims Edwards. In Virginia they have
    already got rid of fill-in-the-bubbles standardized tests which is already a great step. Edwards
    states that teachers were asked to come up with a alternate performance based project to reflects
    the students progress. Using a project to reflect a childrens work would help the teacher see
    what areas the student may need help in. Edwards explains that after Virginia started eliminating
    the amount of tests, the issue became noticed on the national level. Since Virginia has already
    made this great step, hopefully other schools and areas adapt this way of testing as well.
    Anxiety caused by standardized test among elementary school kids varies, however test
    anxiety can affect a childs behavioral reaction. Segool explains that task-relevant behaviors

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    include finishing class work on time and working diligently on class assignments, which is how
    most children begin working before anxiety kicks in (1). Children who practice task-relevant
    behaviors are on the right path for their education and have not let any test anxiety overpower
    them. According to Segool, task- irrelevant behavior is usually a result of test anxiety and
    includes just simple skimming through test items and turning assignments in late (1). Children
    who have task-irrelevant behaviors are starting to stress out in school and standardized testing
    has a huge impact on children and their learning behaviors. Some students also encounter
    physiological reactions due to testing, this may include muscle tightness and increased heart rate
    (Segool 1). Physiological reactions also create thoughts of worry in the childs mind, testing can
    cause them to panic that they are not good enough if they do poorly on their standardized test. If
    the child begins to panic he/she will begin to have physiological thoughts of social humiliation
    and consequences of failure.
    The cost of standardized testing and the consequences of paying for these test are very
    important, argues Fuer. The cost of these test are being taken out of our money, the money should
    be used on bigger and better things for these young students. Feuer states that the United States
    spends around 5 million dollars on standardized test every year. The misuse of these standardized
    tests basically wastes the 5 million dollars used to pay for these test. The government is paying
    nearly 5 million dollars per year for these test that just drag a students confidence explains feuer.
    Students did not learn much from these standardized test, it just brought some students self
    confidence down.
    Works Cited
    Axelrod, Jim, and Julianna Goldman. "Now To A Major Shakeup In Education, Today President
    Obama Called On A Federal Government To Change Course On Standardized Testing."

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