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- The Horrors of Standardized Testing
As a high school senior, I have always killed myself over standardized tests. Due to this devotion, I have received what most people would call "very good scores". But I never really feel satisfied with these scores. Listening to this episode, in particular the segment about chess and the beauty of a new creation, made me realize that part of the reason standardized tests are so terrible, is that they involve no innovative or orignal thinking. Therefore, once you have "achieved" a high score on one of these tests, you don't really feel like you have accomplished anything. I believe that this is a true shame. Many of America's brightest and hardest working teenagers are devoting hours of their time to these tests, which ultimately will give them to tools necessary to form the solutions and ideas of tomorrow. Thank you radiolab for showing this to me. I vow to give up standardized testing. I realize that my intelligence is truly proven by the moments in physics class when I can think of an alternate solution to the book's method or the times in english when I find can interpret a segment of text from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in a way different than my classmates. Regardless if the class is Calculus or art, originality and creativity are what truly matter when it comes to learning. Intelligence is not a number.
