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Con: no time for teaching life

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Pro: You know where your students stand on certain things

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Pro: You know where your students stand on certain things

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Con: Can't explore topics further.

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Pro - can adjust your lessons to support concepts that need to be relearned/retaught

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Pro: Students can celebrate their growth or success after meeting their academic goals.

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Pro: you can gauge how much your student retained on an individual level

con: You often find yourself only teaching material for a test and not giving students a diverse education

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Con: puts extra stress on both the teacher and student when their personal value seems to be measured by test results

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TOO MUCH!!!!! TOO OFTEN!!! NO DIFFERENTIATION!!!!

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Con: Takes out creativity of teaching and is usually a one-sided measure that does not take into account different strengths and abilities

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Pro: if made by the teachers, backwards design keeps everything aligned
Con: if made by the higher ups, they may not follow the framework as well as someone actually working with the material would

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Con:
Students can form a learned helplessness mindset after years of being labeled an "at risk" or SOL fail student
--There is a great deal of cultural bias found on tests. Test makers assume a level of social/Westernized knowledge (i.e. -football rules as examples).
--Testing accommodations can be frustrating and ineffective.

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Con: standardized tests restrict what teachers focus on in their classrooms
Pros: It allows Teachers to see where mastery has occurred

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Cons:  I think the numerous criticisms have been said ad nauseum, but there is definitely something to the idea that so much is placed on a few assessments and these do a poor job measuring the aptitude of all students.

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Lets you know where your students stand.

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Pro: gives students feedback on their work and what they need to do in order to improve

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Pro: One way to measure to measure student progress and if they are learning the material

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Con: Makes it extremely difficult to teach the interesting, awesome stories from history. Rather, we almost solely teach the dates/places/people.

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Pro- use them to compile data to guide future instruction.

Con- education becomes "studying for the test" instead of an exploration of content. My 11th graders have spent the past 9 weeks practicing SOL skills over and over. It is pretty terrible for everyone involved.

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Con - when everyone else has to teach to the test, as someone without "the test" you are still asked to teach in a similar manner with very few guidelines as to what that should look like

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Pro: provides proof of what the students know/have been taught

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Con: Teaching to the test is a drag.

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Pros:  I don't think tests are as restrictive of critical thinking as is often implied.  Many questions require a level of application or evenevaluation in order to get them right.

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Pro: You know what the students know or don't know.

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Pro - one of the most efficient ways of determining whether or not students are retaining content information from day to day