Describe standardized testing. Explain the difference between standardized testing and norm-referenced testing

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Standardized tests in each state of America measure basic skills and rote learning. These tests are often referred to as standards-based assessments, referring to assessments that compare student accomplishment to pre-established achievement goals rather than to the achievement of other students. Education standards in content areas are designed to define what students should know and be able to do in that area of learning. The standards-based assessments measure students' progress based on their test performance. The standard is supposed to be absolute, independent of the proportion of students who meet it. Norm-referenced tests, in contrast, describe what students can do relative to other students. The fact that a student scores at the 60th percentile in mathematics in a norm-referenced test, for example, tells us only that she fares as well as or better than 60 percent of her peers-not how many mathematical skills she has mastered.?

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