Students in schools all across America are evaluated through standardized tests every year, with many different forms of analysis. The Forward Exam. The Aspire Exam. The MAP, the ACT, the SAT. The assessments may very well be the backbone of our education system, a simple way to measure and compare the understanding of participants, and the quality of schools across the nation. However, critics argue that the negatives of standardized testing outway the positives, high levels of stress and missed class time are key points in this argument. The debate the debate about standardized testing is one that attempts to answer the question “How many assessments should students be required to take?”
The first recorded standardized test came from China,