Testing on Computers

Testing on computers is not fun at all I would know from experience because at our school we have to take a lot of tests on computers for weeks at a time that are put forth to our schools in Colorado to do to see if you could be in a higher or more advanced class. Like we have to go do to have the high school see if some of the students in the 8th grade can be in a better class that suits them for their needs. "But why can't we just have our tests on paper is the real question?" The Teachers say that they are preparing us for our futures and like how we get older all we are going to use is the computer not paper form things for our jobs. Like they would know that!

Personally I think that testing on the computer has many disadvantages and flaws because first that your eyes get really dry by looking at a screen for long periods of time like we do while testing.
Testing on the computer is also very unreliable because the internet is not always working properly and it's not always going to work all the time when we need it to. This is why when we have to test on paper we can just get the test and take it instead having to walk down to the computer lab and then get all ready and have to wait for all of the computers to work for all of the students that have to take the test. I just think that if you have to do a test on the computer yes it saves money and paper but it also wastes a lot of time and it is not that reliable all the time when we have to test.

Computers are also a big issue with other teacher like if something comes up and a teacher can make it to school. Then the sub has to do testing or they have to get another teacher from the school to stop what they are doing to come and do testing because the sub doesn't know what to do when we are testing. I think that happens a lot when we test on the computer because the sub has not computer access to the schools things so they can log in to the testing thing so we can do our tests on the computer. Unlike the testing on paper where they give you the testing packet and read the instructions and they tells everyone to do and then we can actually do our test with less complications like the computer would give us the students and the teacher, or sub would have.

I think that some of the things while testing on the computer are good because their you can have a ruler, calculator, and some of the other utensils you will need fro you test instead of having to give you all of these things in like a big package. But still in my opinion it is way better that sitting at a computer for about an hour or more for a week or two straight. The computer I think gets really boring and I have seen and experienced that you start to get really impatient while waiting for the testing time to be up. And then they say that you can't look around the room, write, or even get on anything else on the computer. I think this is really boring and when you are in the computer lab you always want to see who is done and who is not and that requires you look around the room.

 We as bored students get in trouble for this and it is really unfair.Even thou when we are testing on paper we still get bored but we don't usually get in trouble for look around the room like the computer testing. I also think that the computer testing is very different from the paper testing because on the computer test you get like an hour and a half to finish like seven question it is ridiculous to have that much time to do only seven question when they are also very easy to most people in our grade because we did those types of things when we were in like 6th or 7th grade.

Testing on computers are just so much different than some of us have ever done before and it is hard t change something that you just started when you are as old as some of us that have been doing testing on paper for many years and have just always known that you do tests on a piece of paper and not a computer. It is like teaching a 3 years old dog how to sit or lay down or roll over it is almost impossible. This is why if they wanted us to test on computers they should of started doing it when we were young and not now at this age. Because they know that we are not use to all the doing everything on the computer type of people. Some people like me like it how it was before it was good and it was way easy and way more dependent on than now one the computer. I like the pen or pencil on paper that's what kind f type of person I am and that's just not going to change no matter what you do to try to like or get me to test good on the computers. It is just not going to happen.