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EDFD203 Task 1

Standardized assessment in school systems has been the center of debate for decades.
Although the voices of opponents of standardized tests have dominated the public forum,
only a handful of scholars and practitioners have argued in defense of standardized tests.
(Wang 2006)

The idea underlying the implementation of written examinations in the 19 th century , that
they could provide information about student learning, was born in the minds of individuals
already convinced that education was substandard in quality, This sequence perception of
failure followed by the collection of data designed to document failure… offers early
evidence of what has become a tradition of school reform and a truism of student testing:
tests are often administered no just to discover how well schools or kids are doing, but
rather to obtain external confirmation validation of the hypothesis that they are not doing
well at all.

Fierce debates over standardized assessments in teacher preparation have revolved around
flaws in implementation and the politics of privatization. While important, this focus
obscures the philosophical divide between proponents and opponents of standardized
assessments.

Too often debates about educational purposes, politics, and practices are carried out by
people who hold similar beliefs about the nature and purposes of schooling, which we define
in this paper as a philosophical viewpoint may dichotomize their beliefs about schooling
against those held by others. Current examples of this include debates over whether to
reward learning processes of products in school (Hebert, 1992), the superiority of one
research methodology (i.e., quantitative or qualitative) over another (Gage, 1989), the
benefits of promoting reading development through the use of tradebooks instead of basal
readers (Reutzel & Cooter , 1992), the appropriateness of whole language over phonics
instruction (Smith, 1992), and central to this manuscript, debates about the use of
standardized or national norm referenced testing and authentic assessment strategies such
as portfolios of student work (Grady, 1992).

References:

Birrell, J. R., & Ross, S. K. (1996). Standardized testing and portfolio assessment: Rethinking
the debate.

Garrison, M. J. (2009). A measure of failure: The political origins of standardized testing.

Wang, L., Beckett, G. H., & Brown, L. (2006). Controversies of standardized assessment in
school accountability reform: A critical synthesis of multidisciplinary research
evidence. Applied measurement in education, 19(4), 305-328.
Wahl, R. (2017). What can be known and how people grow: The philosophical stakes of the
assessment debate. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 36, 499-515.

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