HISTORY AND TYPES

OF
STANDARDIZED TESTING

LAMPREA
WHAT

SCORES ARE

Scores
- these are used to decide how well a school,
teacher, and student are performing.
 HISTORY OF

STANDARDIZED
TESTS
1909 - Thorndike Handwriting Scale was the first popular standardized
achievement test used in public schools.

1930's - United States and Canada were using some form of

standardized testing. However, during these days, the results were hardly
ever discussed, parents didn't receive the scores, and school-wide results
were not grist for local newspapers (Perrone, 1991).
1950's - students who graduated from high school would take three
standardized tests (today, kids take between 18-21 tests).
- thus making it easy for us to believe that the 'volume of testing
has an annual growth rate of 10-20 percent'.

Before 1965 - standardized tests were not used in early grades becaise
these were years of growth and development.

After 1965 - standardized tests were exploding everywhere, with no

regard on the afe of the student.
- there were many new federal and state funds available for
schools, and "standardized tests were seen as the most inexpensive and
easy-to-use measures for meeting the requirements.
1980's - sixteen states and districts (which are now in total of 21)
required children to take standardized test before entering indergarten
and districts in at least 42 states require students to pass a standardized
test before graduating from kindergarten.
BEFORE...
standardized tests, were more like screening tools for schools to let
parents know that they need to wait anothr year, or that their child
should repeat kindergarten.

BUT OVER THE PAST

DECADES...
standardized tests have expanded their purposes. They can also be used
in determining a student's academic level. They become the basis for
early tracking then ongoing tracking, reflecting the belief that
homogeneous achievement groups facilitate more efficient and effective
teaching and learning.
 DIFFERENT TYPES
OF STANDARDIZED
TEST
1. Norm-referenced testing - measures performance relative to all other
students taking the same test. This is the type of test you can use if you
want to know how a student is compared to the rest.

For example, if a student is ranked in the 86th percentile, that

means he/she did better than 86 percent of others who took the test.
This type of testing is the most common found among standardized
testing.
2. Criterion referenced testing - measures factual knowledge of a defined
body of material.

For example, multiple-choice tests that people take to get their license
or a test in fractions.
These two tests can also be divided further into performance tests or
aptitude tests.

Performance tests are assessments of what learning has already

occurred in a particular subject area, while aptitude tests are
assessments of abilities or skills considered important to future success
in school.
Instructions: Get 1/2 sheet of paper and choose the correct answer from the
box shown below.
1)__________ are the basis for early tracking then ongoing tracking, reflecting
the belief that homogeneous achievement groups facilitate more efficient
and effective teaching and learning.

2)___________ is the first popularized standardized test.

3)Before, standardized tests were more like screening tools for schools in
order to let the parents know that they might need to wait another year
because their child may not be prepared, or that their child should actually
entirely repeat kindergarten. Over the years, standardized tests have
expanded their purposes. Now, they can be used in determining a student's
________ level.

4)There are ___ main types of standardized test.

5)The _____-referenced testing, measures performance relative to all
other students who are taking the same exact test.

6)The _____-referenced measures factual knowledge of a defined body

material.

7)______ are an example criterion-referenced testing.

8)_______ tests are assessments of what learning has already occurred in a

certain or particular subject area.

9)On the other hand, ______tests are assessments of abilities or skills

considered important to future success in school.

10)_____ is an example of an aptitude test.

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