Standardized testing is a good thing

(Hello and thank you for joining my debate)I will now pose my counterarguments for the following areas which you presented.ROUND 2: COUNTERARGUMENTS:(Rebuttal for "evaluation tools"): Many states have switched to the PARCC testing system which is digitally formated. I personally have taken the test and so have others that I met and so I speak by experience by saying this: not all the questions are the same because that would make cheating much easier, I asked about 100 kids in my grade and none of us had the same questions as anyone else. The questions on standardized testing are not meant to measure deep and creative thinking - they are to measure if you can understand a math problem or read a passage correctly and understand that. While deep thinking may be importaint for life - it is not a skill that you would aquire at any school you would go to. As I said before, many states upgrated their testing material to PARCC testing - so no cirriculum is really "out of date."(Rebuttal for "objective"): As you have said - tests that states have switched to like the PARCC are computer graded and are not biased. While the questions on the test are generated by humans - the people who make the test are certified to do so, and take it seriously, they have degrees and subjects like math and history - there is only one correct answer. While English open-responces are graded by humans - they have expirence and do not know the person who wrote the passage to mess around with their work or give them an unfair / or too fair or a score.(Rebuttal for "reliability"): What you explained in this section is exactly correct - but there is a reason why that is not an isssue. There are many schools who take the test multiple times a year (with different questions of course) and with roughly the same concepts included in the tests. This gives the school an accurate measure of what the pupil has learned / understands on average. There is a reason why these tests do not count as a grade - it is just to see a pretty accurate level of each child's enhancement.(Rebuttal for "differences"): I am not picking up on the poing you are trying to make?(Rebuttal for "bias"): That is simply untrue. Most tests are computerized at this point at the computer does the scorng. The computer can not possibly have a bias because it is a machiene. That is another reason why most tests are given electronically - so the computer can check for curse words or anything biased before it goes to a person for scoring (that is usually for only English portions). The tests that are given on paper - are mostly multiple choice. And if the student answers A and the correct answer is A, you cannot mark them wrong, because there is no biased for those questions because there is only one correct answer. The people who grade the paper - writting portions do not know the individual whom took the test for obvious reasons - as we have both agreed on. If there was no such thing as standardized testing - and the teacher was grading all the tests to see where a student/s were at, that would contain much more of a bias than standardized testing does because the teacher knows the kid and can be biased and twist answers around to be unfair - thankfully, that is not the case in this scenerio.(Rebuttal for "knowledge"): That is the point of standardized testing though - to see what a student understands and learns. It is to see if they are "actively making meaning out of what they are doing." That is the whole concept. The test covers the whole cirriculum that the student needs to know and understand - and that is all the "knowlegde" they need to know for the grade to pass. If a student does poorly in a certain area - there is a reason for it, that is the reason why we have these tests, so we can find these reasons and fix them. There is no other way around it unless you want to include a lot more bias.(Rebuttal for "achievement"): Where did you get this information from? That is an opinon of yours which you will need to cite for anyone to believe you.(Rebuttal for "teachers"): Did you read my first argument? A survey found that more teachers support standardized testing than don't with a vote of 2-1. That means that 66% of teachers support it 2/3 teachers.(Rebuttal for " stakes"): That is what I am trying to say - these tests are an accurate messure if a teacher is doing their job and if the students are learning the ciricculum they need to know (refrence back to my first argument for evidence on this portion of the argument.(Rebuttal for "high stakes"): There is no boost to be offered from standardized testing. It is only to see if Ex. a student will not struggle in an honors class or will understnad what they ar learning and comprehending all the material in the next grade. If a student is absent, they are rescheduled to take it another time - ther is no escaping it, it is mandatory. And it is not possible to push them out of school because they do not do well on a test - the test is to do the opposite of that.(Rebuttal for "ability"): Teachers have biased "which you wanted to avoid." This is documentation of student work over a period of time because the scores are saved. The tests are given to see where the student is at on a performance level. Finland actually does do standardized testing - they are the 1# country in the world for standardized testing and test really high on other non-standardized tests because of that.(Rebuttal for "racism"): There is no racism involved in scoring these tests because the people / machienes who score these tests do not know what race or culture these students come from - they do not even know the person in real life.I rest my case.