Should we get rid of standardized testing? - Arlo Kempf

Great in their right place

Wait a second. But if you subtracted 10 degrees from the invalid thermometer, then wouldn’t it be accurate?!

Sending this to my principal😊

We need to teach life skills not teach to a standardized test. Bring back physical education past the mockery it is today, shop class to revitalize the trades and give kids who dont have college in their forsight an option, home ed to teach how to cook clean and care for your home, and tax literacy considering not even the "professionals" at the IRS understand tax code or how to properly ammend a return.

I feel like standardized tests should only be religated to high school

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Yes

I'm currently studying at university, and in high school, I always messed up on the SAT reading part -- even after winning my county short story contest (and I live in a rather large district). It's mostly because I have ADHD and get distracted easily, but even my friends who were at the top of their classes struggled. It's about the time limit, not about the students' ability to be "smart" of whatever.

ironically, I got the same score in english test but at two different levels, when i'm good and when i was bad in english. the difference is for the worse one that i had crammed the knowledge on a paper the teacher gave us before the exam, and for the better one that i did not cram anything before the exam it's was just my real knowledge of english at that time.

I knew students who were straight A students in high school but would forget all the information the following year. Some people have a really good short term memory.

Thanks

This is worse than IQ and stereotypes.

We can measure the circumference of an orange by a ruler by drawing a line along the circumference using a mareker. Then usin a ruler mark a small line every 1 mm along the circumference. Then count the total number of small lines.
Multiply the number of divisions with 1 mm . And we'll get the circumference in milimeters which can be converted in centimetres.

The comedy about this international English language test is that they are not "friendly" to anyone that isn't a genious about this test... We can get a high score, yeah, but at the end what's the reason behind complicate things to a level of "confidence", "exact word usage (Writing)", specific amount of words and random knowledge...
At the end IELTS and many other exams have the lack of friendliness and also ignores the objective of language itself... Communicate, we can be polite, attentive, up to the date of many topics, but for work, study, and talk we need to communicate, not being like the "reliable" person that elite language academics say...
But hey... I'm just a normal person and I can't change the hard/tuff direction that multiple academies of language like to do in order to sell more books, training programs, even test...

(Oh and I'm about to end 10th semester and finally become a legally proper teacher, I hate the fact that foreign languages are being managed by "academic" companies that want to standardize how the people talk and communicate, the grading system and the difficult and way in which they evaluate is about "confidence" but also exact pronunciation and strict use of language... I get that academies and business have a "face" that we have to use at the moment of talk and write letters, but being too strict with it with everyone isn't that good...

As a retired teacher, I can say that these tests ate up a lot of instruction time. And WHY are they given every year??? When I was a children, I remember having them in 4th grade, 8th grade, and then maybe a precollege test. And many people have said in these comments, we need to revamp our school system.

I HATE APTITUDE TEST! I CAN'T EVEN USE THEM IN A REAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT, WHOEVER INVENTED IT IS NARCISSISTIC.

At least in higher education, I feel that standardized tests are a must. Rich kids can get internships, volunteering positions, etc through their connections, and they can get a good GPA at an elite school by buying off the right people, but they can't fake their way through the SATs or ACTs (at least, in a perfect world they can't). The SAT and ACT can be aced by any student, rich or poor, if they put in the work, and that evens the playing field.

Of course. This is, because belief in the usefulness of standardised tests should be associated with mental illness. The reason for why standardised tests failed America for 40 years is because of mental disorders in those who still believe that they work, and because children do not have standardised minds. The idea behind standardised tests was to force Nature to conjure up some kind of a human memory which could memorise the content required to answer them. Nature cannot be forced to do things. Nature does what nature does. Thanks for the lecture.

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I don’t get Why Colleges/Universities Requires SAT & ACT in the 1st place, These exams Are good at making you fail miserably even when you study hard for them , It’s Still Hard to Pass them just to enroll to a College/University….FML

Anyone who’s in 11th grade in High School didn’t have to pay for SAT in high school but if you want to take it again, you have to pay for it which sucks, ACT Also Requires you to pay for a Test only to see u fail

Let’s not forget that U have to Pay anywhere around $1000 for ACT tutor/prep, I don’t get why they would rip you off for it

Also, Students Drop out of Schools and Never could’ve gotten to go to college because of these Exams
Just FML

Where I can find the text of this video ?

Wait,the ruler grew back magically and also cut an orange. I never knew a ruler could cut a orange , 2:22

I hear dat, up in here.

You know what's interesting about standardized tests? That men score better on them. In contrast, women do better in grading, where there's room for subjective coloring.

THIS IS GONNA REPLAY IN MY MIND AT 4 AM 😂😂😂😂😂 🤣 🤣 😂😂😂
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Forget anything that comes out of Harvard. Harvard has turned into an insane asylum. We need to keep standardized testing. Who do you want performing your operation or flying your airplane? Do you want the high achievers who worked hard and scored well or do you want people who became surgeons and pilots through affirmative action? Answer the questions clearly and honestly.

Stop whining!
No, we don’t get rid of standardized tests.
Work harder America, and did I mention stop whining?

Although standardized tests have many flaws, they do have one major benefactor: Equality. No matter where in the country, who the person is, the test is guaranteed to be the same caliber for everyone.

Standardized test, and only one per something, are used, because they are cost efficient. The goals mentioned in the video can be solved by more sophisticated standardized test or a set of a wider range of them, But that would require more money, because more manpower would be needed.

Has anyone seen Korea's exams for their students? Our kids would fail in an instant because they cannot properly read or write. Forget mathematics. We have dummy teachers teaching students.

When you leave school, nobody is going to ask you to take a test. They will however expect you to think conceptually. And therein lies the problem.

totally wrong, chinese have a very best education, because they have a standarized test on gaokao, they standarized test make them good in education,

Another issue is a false notion that test scores must have a normal distribution. A normal distribution indicates failed teaching: the common shared classroom experience did not determine test scores but rather some external random normally distributed factor that varied from student to student.

I think we got to stop fighting it makes it harder for us to love each other to the best of our ability.

huh, so that's why my rulers aren't telling me what the elephants had for breakfast

Would love to know who paid for this video. Jesus.

School testing is racism. As long as a students attend classes, they should receive a degree. That includes no testing for student doctors, lawyers and engineers.

Lol. Another PR piece for as social change agenda we’re supposed to believe is just some thoughts. The intellectual environment today is poisonous.

Not to mention often times what we’re taught in class is nothing like the material on our test, at least not in a program like IB where our tests come from people overseas we don’t even know.

I'd love to revisit this topic, especially after the pandemic.

Standardized tests should be revised to better test actual skills and be less dependent on education you got.
The problem (not only in the us) is that students from more privileged backgrounds get a lot of advantage on such tests. However, abolishing them completely would be the worst solution possible - universities would have to recruit based on GPA, recommendation letters, extracurricular activities - stuff where money and ties give even more unfair advantage.
No method will ever be perfect. Kids from well-off, well connected families will always have some advantage. But efforts should be made to minimize that advantage and provide ways for students from less-privileged backgrounds to end up in places that correspond to their abilities and not where they come from or who their parents are.

Yes, we should. All they do is poorly reinforce what has already been shoved into students' minds multiple times.

If there is no testing, then teachers have ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY!!! They have little enough the way it is. They waste the kids time with Drag Queen Story Hour. And we see the results. Kids learn less and less. The way we know they learn less is they do badly on tests. Thats why teachers want to get rid of them. So they can indoctrinate kids, and good off the rest of the time.

It’s almost like there are standards in life we expect from people….

YES