... easy way to assess large numbers of students swiftly. In 1905, French psychologist Alfred Binet began making a standardized test of intelligence quiz, work that would ultimately be integrated into a form of the current IQ test, named the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. By World War 1, standardized testing was typical preparation: aptitude quizzes called Army Mental Tests were given to give ... U.S. army men tasks during the war effort. Grading was at first done manually, a laborious task that went against standardized testing's goal of fast bulk testing. Until 1936 when scientist deve...

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... are still useful in educating today's students. Norm-Referenced Tests Norm-referenced tests compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already taken the same test, called the "norming group." Scores are reported in percentiles, quartiles, stanines, and/or grade equivalents. Norm-referenced tests are designed to compare students" scores. Commercial norm-referenced ... seen in the local curriculum. Examples of these are: the California Achievement Test (CAT), the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), which includes the Terra Nova, the Iowa Test of Basic...

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... answering multiple-choice questions, and having only a fifteen-minute interval going to truly evaluate college success? Likely not. The idea that a multiple-choice test can, or will, actually ascertain an individual's success in college is backed, at best, by only a modicum of evidence. Simply put: SAT's ... indication of an individual's future college success. This Scholastic Aptitude Test originated from the Alpha Army and was designed to determine the IQ of new recruits. Carl Brigham, a professor at Princeton University, saw the potential benefits of such a test and began adapting i...

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... to quality teaching and learning" (Phelps). A tool that educators use to learn about students and their learning capabilities is the standardized test. Standardized tests are designed to give a common measure of a student's performance. Popular tests include the SAT, IQ tests, Regents Exams, and the ACT. "Three kinds of standardized tests are used frequently in schools: achievement, diagnostic, and aptitude ... everything else. The curriculum is thereby narrowed, which means that some subjects are ignored. Within those that are taught, lower order thinking skills are emphasized. As a res...

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