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In reply to the discussion: 20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core": [View all]mzteris
(16,232 posts)oh noooooo standardized testing like it's some new thing.
I went to school in - well - a LONG time ago and we took two standardized tests every year in elementary & middle school - the beginning and the end. It was either the CAT or the IOWA or the Stanford, etc. . . the same test in any given year, but different tests in different years. (And from one state to another - we moved some.) Achievement tests, "IQ" tests, reading tests - heck I think we had those quarterly or something. All standardized, fill in the bubble. (Of course, no electronic scanning, but the teacher used a template and just used a red pen to mark the "right choice" if it wasn't colored in. Count the red marks, subtract from total, etc. . .
They knew what you "knew" in the beginning of the year and how much you had progressed by the end of the year.
So why all the hysteria NOW when it's been going on forever?? Seriously, my older sister and brother took them, too and they're a good bit older than I.