cons

Make students respond to tests, no application or use of critical skills
Tests usually reflect a parents income
Tests hurt the people of color and the poor
Might begin to teach classes with the end goal of scoring high on tests
It’s expensive to administer on a yearly basis
A child becomes very nervous and anxious
Undermine a child’s ability to learn (test anxiety)
Cause students to believe that good grades are more important than understanding-that high scores rather than the cultivation of the mind if purpose of schooling
By the 1970s, what is now benignly called curriculum alignment began to occur. Schools went into the business of designing what and how they taught in order to match the tests. For example, teaching the right answers to the items likely to be found on a reading test became the way to teach reading.
Limited evidence suggests that poorer and minority students are more likely to be in classrooms and schools that have fewer important educational resources. These students are also quite likely to face de facto race and class educational segregation that not only provides them fewer educational resources but also may have a dampening effect on achievement in and of itself
sometimes test questions are not well-designed
students who are not fluent in English may not be able to read the questions and therefore cannot demonstrate their knowledge of a subject