Fear And Anxiety
Another issue with the Florida Standards Assessment is the fear and anxiety it instills in students. The first wave of Common Core testing, developed by Pearson Inc., was met with outrage about its length, appropriateness, and difficulty.
Most students felt stressed and unprepared – reacting to the test with anger, tears, anxiety, and shock. The reaction to the test was so extreme that administrators everywhere requested guidelines for how to handle test papers that had been thrown up on. And the controversy only grew.