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Bookmark or Share- Standardized Testing Pros and Cons - Does It Improve Education?Standardized tests are defined as “any test that’s administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner,” according to by W. James Popham, former President of the American Educational Research Association.
- Footnotes - Standardized Tests - ProCon.orgFootnotes. The background and pro and con arguments were written by ProCon.org staff based upon input from the following sources. 1. National Center for Education Statistics, “Highlights from the 2000 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA),” nced.ed.gov, 2002. 2.
- Take Action - Standardized Tests - ProCon.orgTake Action. 1. Analyze Matthew Pietrafetta’s defense of standardized tests. 2. Explore the standardized testing debate with The Glossary of Education Reform. 3. Consider the con opinion of former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and historian Diane Ravitch. 4.
- Standardized tests help students in marginalized groups.Advocates for marginalized groups of students, whether by race, learning disability, or other difference, can use testing data to prove a problem exists and to help solve the problem via more funding, development of programs, or other solutions.
- History of Standardized Tests - ProCon.orgThe earliest known standardized tests were administered to government job applicants in 7th Century Imperial China. The tests, built upon a rigid “eight-legged essay” format, tested the applicants’ rote-learned knowledge of Confucian philosophy, and were in widespread use until 1898.
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