english blog: Week 32: Weekly Blogpost

Week 32: Weekly Blogpost

?Standardized testing is probably the most important aspect of a school-aged child?s life, in the United States. Based on the results, students are placed in programs, assigned to remediation, special education services, or gifted programs. Unfortunately, for culturally and linguistically diverse students, most standardized test questions used in the United States today are biased toward, white, middle-class students, using background information and references to American life, references that cannot be easily understood by students of diverse cultures. Poor scores on these assessments may cause a student to be incorrectly classified as a special education student when, common, in fact, the student is very bright?only unable to correctly answer questions based on American culture, rather than their background, which is very different.?

In TOK class I continued to research more about testing bias. Another bias inside testing bias that caught my attention the most was cultural bias. As I am latin and latin people are one of the people who this testings are biased against. These tests are mostly biased towards white, middle-class students using background information and references to American Life. To start with, cultural bias in testing is inappropriate for some audience as it does not really test student?s actual knowledge of a taught subject or contains details from a culture the student is not familiar with. As the test is not designed to contain topics of culture, the test should not include cultural information that will throw off some students. Testings need to be as fair as possible. If these testings are not as fair as possible it will create emotional effects. Which make students struggle with testing and these results will question their own capabilities to learn. Which will make that person struggle in their future to be accepted to a college or university. This also creates more achievement gaps between students, rather than helping them because they are testing groups unfairly. So these biases have to stop in order for testing to be as fair as possible with every individual no matter their culture.

Source: http://danielacasanovaenglish.blogspot.com/2013/04/week-32-weekly-blogpost.html

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