Some might argue that while standardized testing has its flaws, it must still be in place because it is good for using a common measure to help see what changes are needed d to help improve the school. For example, in the paper “What is the case for Standardized testing,” author Lauren Crawford evaluates how standardized testing is useful for many schools, and talks about how schools have used standardized testing to help turn things around saying, “ In older grades standardized testing measures where students rate in comparison with their peers and thus how the student and his teachers are doing (Bagin, 1994). While these tests do rate students according to how well they do on these tests, some schools have used these scores to reform their systems and, in turn, drastically improve their methods (Wolf et al., 2000). Schools in economically devastated areas like the ones in eastern Kentucky under the strong leadership of their principals and the dedication of …show more content…
These tests are used by every school in the country and help give a good benchmark for what a school needs to do. However, using assessments such as ‘Multiple Measures’ gives a better, more cultivated idea of which schools are doing better by looking at students' data from Pre K to high school that incorporates the different school environments into it as well. This renders Standardized testing useless because it only looks at a couple of tests administered to the student, and because students are usually given these tests only in high school. Whereas Multiple Measures look at all aspects of a student and for the entirety of his or her time in school which makes it an overall better method than standardized testing. By getting a larger variety and understanding of a student's academic life by taking the years before high school into consideration, Multiple Measures can successfully gauge a student's