Standardized_Testing

Standardized Testing Throughout history the Public School System never made it mandatory to have their students take national standardized test. This particular issue is under fire from many different angles. National testing should be implemented in public schools but not to the extent when failure occurs the student will be left back in the school system. Some think the testing will be beneficial to students, however most feel that it will be detrimental to the learning process. The definition of the word test is “a basis for evaluation or judgment.” This is exactly how these standardized tests should be used, as a basis. A basis of how to make the Public School System more efficient, as opposed to a basis of whether or not a student should or should not pass a certain grade. “Standardized testing is currently used to the accountability function of using student scores to assess the effectiveness of teachers, schools, and even entire districts. (Robinson and Craver 1989). There are a vast amount of ways for a student’s progress to be assessed in a classroom with standardized testing being just one of the procedures. The other major assessment tool is the teacher’s evaluation of the student. “Non- assessment is standardized, assessment, tests, test, testing, student, system, should, school, students, schools, national, learning, educational, scores, however, horn, bochecchio, being, basis, year, teaching, sanders, public, progress, kohn, just, evaluation, curriculum, back, word, way, time, teachers, subject