!!!!!!!GRADE 12 STANDARDIZED TESTING!!!!!!!!! debate (1 Viewer)

[ibeeberz]

Hey all.

This Saturday i have a debate club competition with other schools, and the resolution for this competition is

"BIRT Ontario should institute compulsory, standardized tests for all
subjects in Grade 12"
(Be it resolved that, BIRT)

I love debate but this is my first time on this club, so i wanted to get some oppinions, perspectives and views from people here.

The topic is Standardized testing for Grade 12's before the graduates puruse to University/College. I am from Ontaro, canada, and there is no standardized testing here.

However, i believe that they have them in america, so i wanted to get youir point's of view on it, and why.




My team was chosen to support Pro. Our main ideas are..

1. It filters out the exceptional students over others

2. Fair oppurtunity for those to enter universities/college, since there is a lot of discrepancy between highschools, hence, a standard needs to be set. an 80% average (without standardized testing) at xyz school can be the same as a 70% in abc school.


We need more, and we need lots of points of view. Thanks, it is VERY appreciated.

Isaac

 

[Jerry]

Shooting from the hip.....

Standardized testing exposes a student’s weaknesses, making parents and officials aware of academic arise which need attention.

Standardized testing exposes a students strengths. This helps in determining what careers the student would excel in and help them attain a since of direction.

Standardized testing established how well a given student will likely perform in a given collage. This bears relevance when the student is applying for various grants and scholarships and when the collage wishes to accept a higher standard for a given course.

Supposedly standardized testing is to show that a given student has met the requirements to graduate, however here in America we have politicians like Hillary Clinton who forward legislation like No Child Left Behind, and so we give them a pass even if they are totally unprepared for the real world.......then these same politicians complain about the crime and unemployment rate and blame it all on Bush......

 

[Andy]

Standardized tests also provide a (in my opinion somewhat ineffective) means of comparing students.

It's also a great tool for fighting grade inflation. Eg. Student X at School Q has all A's in Math and English, but scored only a 1300/2400 on the SAT. Student Y at School P has A's and B's, but got a 2300/2400. Doesn't is seem apparent that Student A's school is probably grade inflated?

 

[rathi]

Standardized tests are a throughly mediocre way of comparing students and evaluating performance. Of course they are far more effective than completely stupid things like grades.

The problem with standardized testing is that it mostly promotes memorization and classes are designed to make students do well on the test at the expense of actual learning. However, grades are far more subjective and are even worse at determining a students performance. They generally combine work ethic, actual performance and teachers opinions into one mark.

I'd choose standardized tests as the lesser evil, but basic educational evaluation techniques need to be changed.