Today, standardized testing has become a well-used and common method to compare and determine an individual’s level of knowledge. These tests have become accustomed to almost all schools and educational institutes as a way to compare the performances, scores, and averages of students nationally and locally. Each test session requires all examinees to answer the same set of questions, all within a certain time frame. True or false and multiple choice are the most familiar type of inquiries used. Once a session of testing is taken, it is then recorded and scored through a consistent and computerized data base. Many people believe that standardized testing is an accurate and efficient way of measuring an individual’s knowledge because each test is scored by technology, therefore, removing any kind of biased and subjective assessments. However, others claim that standardized testing is faulty and inadequate, since knowledge cannot be measured in a form of questions and answers. Some folks consider standard tests to be a fair and helpful source of evaluation. They conclude, because each student receives the same exact test, with the same exact answers, …show more content…
In order for a test to be reliable, it would have to allow for people to get the same score consecutively. Since standardized exams are taken in classrooms among other students, they cannot guarantee a silent undistracted environment for test takers, nor can they provide the same exact environment each time the test is taken. This also goes for an individual’s mental, emotional, or attentive states of mind, giving all standardized tests “measurement error.” Also, tests such as the SAT or ACT are given multiple times throughout the year, but with each test session comes a different booklet of different test questions from the last time, thus making the test unmeasurable and