More Unintended Consequences of
High-Stakes Testing
This writing aims to give a comment on the journal
of Gregory J. Cizek about the unintended consequences of high-stakes testing,
volume 20, issue 4. This journal published in 2001.
High-Stakes
Test is any test that has major consequences or is the basis of a major
decision. This test is a single, defined assessment, has a clear line drawn
between those who pass and tho se who fail. This test also has direct
consequences for passing or failing.
This
journal article explore the basis of
negative sentiments toward and current critiques of high-stakes student testing
from within the education profession. In attempt to provide some remedy for
this and some balances to the policy debates, it presents 10 unanticipated consequences that
are actually good things that have grown out of the increasing reliance on the
test data concerning student performance. Those unintended consequences are
Professional Development, Accommodation, Knowledge About Testing, Collection
and Use of Information, Educational Options, Accountability Systems, Educator’s
Intimacy With Their Disciplines, Quality Of tests, and Increased Student
Learning.
Actually,
there are so many pragmatic complaints from people or society on high-stakes
test. Some of them are disagree and expected that this test is better to be
abolished, even some more are agree with this test. I think that this test has
many benefits for the participants especially for students. One of the benefits
is increased student learning.
Eventhough many assumptions mention that high-stakes test did not bring
any alteration, only small effects on student learning, but at least level of
student achievement is very risky with the presence of high-stakes test. We tend
to see the temporary (short term) effects, such as merely passing exams than
the whole (long term) effects for students. On the other side, students who
take high-stakes testing program will significantly perform their best, and
they are more confident to pass the test because they were having a lot of
materials that served to learn before, struggling more intensive to study hard
and work hard. They also having more knowledges than students who don’t take
this test. We can’t deny that students who take high-stake testing are more
potential and competitive with their efforts to achieve their goals. For the score,
students who take this test obtain a higher score on other tests. All in all,
high-stakes testing can improve students performance.
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