CRCT:
As a part of the No Child Left Behind Act several state implemented test to hold teachers accountable for teaching their students. The test has been helpful as well as harmful for both teachers and students. I am against state standardized test being used to determine if a child should be promoted to the next grade level. I believe that the test should be used to see where a child stand compared to other children in their age/grade range. Test bring upon stress for both the students and teachers. When looking at the child as a whole educators need to look beyond book-based knowledge. For example physical exams can be used to look at growth development.
FSA
British Columbia's students take the Foundation Skills Assessment exam. A number of boards, academics, teachers and parents, contend that such grading leads schools and teachers to teach towards scoring well on the test and not to enlighten students. They maintain such tests are too blunt a tool to gauge how well specific students or schools are doing. Parent uses the testing result to help decide which school they should send their children, many teachers and school administrators claim the tests draw an unfair comparison between schools, raise unnecessary stress on the children and are too expensive to administer.
