Is it ethical for our childrens future to be based on standarized testing

Is it ethical for our children 's future to be based on standardized testing

There\ 's only one thing worse than requiring students to reduce all learning to a single \ "correct\ " answer , and that is reducing assessment and accountability to a single standardized test

-- Bob Peterson and Monty Neil --

How should education be defined ? Perhaps a better question would be should a single standardized test be considered the sole reference as to whether a student has really learned anything through the different approaches to learning that educators employ

in a specific learning environment ? Can anyone ascertain an individual 's level of mastery by merely assessing his knowledge using a standardized testing method in any of these areas : basic skills , academics , technical - or should there be more than that ? Considering that most people would confer scholastic basics to be aptly given more significance than the application of acquired learning since the former is more quantifiable , would make one 's position in support for a standardized testing method more acceptable . In such case , how then should one 's level of mastery in other areas (using inspiration , visionary ambitions , creativity , risk ability to bounce back from failure , motivation ) be gauged ? Most education institutions don 't consider these skills since these skills are associated with understanding the value or application of knowledge .Testing is necessary tool in gauging a student 's subject mastery level and as far as the 1930 's standardized testing has been employed in most schools . It 's...