- One question I had was how many different types of high-stake tests are given throughout the country, or within one state?
-Some issues that arise with teachers, schools, and for students when using high-stakes standardized tests could be test score pollution. This is define as when test scores are increased or decreased due to factors that are unrelated to what the test was actually intended to measure. These problems can arise because the results may not be accurately being portrayed. The results may not be portraying what the students have learned in school throughout the year. One negatively influenced way to have scores be skewed is if the teacher "teaches the test". Then students will know exactly what is on the test and it won't be testing if the school is actually doing a good job teaching students material throughout the course of an entire year. These problems arise because some schools need the state funding and if their score are below average they may not receive the money that they need.
-High-stakes tests are tests that are given within a state to see if students are learning what they should be each year in school. They go over subjects that each student in the corresponding grade should be able to do. This is to make sure that each student throughout the state is learning the same information and are being taught the same things. They are not measuring intelligence. They are measuring if the students are being taught the correct things. Because if the students learn all the information on the test in the classroom, then they should all be knowledgeable and do fine on the test.
-If a student fails a test it maybe the test or the student. The test may not have covered the material that the teacher taught in the classroom. Therefore, they did poorly on it. Also, if the student has a learning disability that was not made aware of then they might do poorly on the test as well. The test may also may not be credible, accurate, or have strong validity, which could make the student perform poorly.
I agree with your last answer about students failing a test. It is very hard to accurately discover why a student has not done well on a test. I like your point about the material not being covered in the teachings; if that was the case, it is easy to compare other students' grades, especially those questions that have not been covered in class and see if that is really the reason why the students missed those questions. Learning disabilities are also very hard to distinguish if the student has no idea that he/she has the disability without outside testing.
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