What are the cons of standardized tests?
Cons of standardized testing
- Inflexibility. Students who excel in classroom settings may not perform well on tests due to anxiety, unfamiliarity with the test format, family matters, health issues, language barriers, or other common conditions. …
- Time-wasting. …
- Doesn’t measure progress. …
- Stress. …
- Politics.
Why is standardized testing not good?
Opponents argue that standardized tests only determine which students are good at taking tests, offer no meaningful measure of progress, and have not improved student performance, and that the tests are racist, classist, and sexist, with scores that are not predictors of future success.