Standardized Testing

Introduction

No test is good sufficient to serve as the sole or primary basis for important educational decisions. Readiness tests, used to work out if the progeny is ready for school, are very inaccurate and encourage the use of overly academic, developmentally inappropriate primary schooling (that is, schooling not appropriate to the child's emotional, social or intellectual development and to the variation in children's development). Screening tests for disabilities are often not adequately validated; that is; it is not verified that they are accurately measuring for disabilities. They also encourage the outlook of young children as having deficits to be amended, ...