Are standardized tests a good thing?

"Teaching to the test" can be a good thing because it focuses on essential content and skills, eliminates time-wasting activities that don't produce learning gains, and motivates students to excel. [18] The US Department of Education stated in Nov. read more

Therefore standardized tests are not a good thing because they do not take into account the non-standardized knowledge of children. Furthermore, the tests may eliminate the brightest as well as the most innovative students and favour the average student programmed to answer standardized answers. read more

Don’t Believe the Hype: Standardized Tests Are Good for Children, Families and Schools Posted Jan. 11, 2016 in Accountability Latasha Gandy is the Minnesota Program Director for Students for Education Reform (SFER). read more

Without standardized testing—and lacking any other basis for comparison in their own educational experience—the students’ families had no way of knowing what I had assumed was obvious: that eighth graders on the other side of town were well past working on multisyllabic words or improper fractions. read more