Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how
students compare with each other or how much of a particular curriculum they
have learned. Increasingly, standardized tests are being used to make major
decisions about students, such as grade promotion or high school graduation,
and schools. More and more often, they also are intended to shape the curriculum
and instruction. Students across America have had to repeat classes because of
the way standardized tests are used to pass or fail students. Students have had
to rely on just one test to pass them for the whole semester (FairTest). Although
the tests require students to retain information until the end of the semester, I
believe it is wrong to allow just a single test to decide whether an entire
semester's work will be rewarded will the credit that may have been well earned.
Even general standardized tests such as the SAT, which almost every high
school student has taken, are not fair to......

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