Standardized Assessment and Testing in PreK-12 Education1 Assessment continues to be a central focus for policymakers, district leaders and community members seeking to under-stand school …

A test can be more or less standardized (there is no absolute criterion or yardstick to denote when a test has ‘‘achieved’ standardization); as a result, teacher-developed tests can incorporate features of …

A standardized assessment presents test-takers with the same questions or the same types of questions and is administered and scored in the same way.1 Designed to pro-vide consistent results, …

Standardized testing has been an integral part of education systems worldwide for over a century. Designed to provide an objective measure of student achievement and school performance, these …

A Standardized test is a test that is given in a consistent or “standard” manner. Standardized tests are designed to have consistent questions, administration procedures, and scoring procedures.

Standardized tests are developed by educational testing experts. They are carefully constructed and items are selected after trials for appropriateness and difficulty, to make sure the results are accurate …

A test in which the content and format of the test and the conditions of testing (such as timing, directions, use of calculators) are controlled to make them the same for all test takers.