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standardized testing

standardized testing

24 3.3
Tests given and scored the same way to compare students' results
  • noun
  • /ˈstændərdaɪzd ˈtɛstɪŋ/
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  • And they continue to perform higher on standardized tests than their public and private school peers.
  • standardized test scores
  • administer standardized tests
  • use of standardized tests

And by the way, standardized tests like the SAT, they're essentially intelligence tests.

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Examples

  • The goals center a lot around attendance, standardized test results, parent, teacher, student satisfaction.

  • Outside of the United States, similar studies of music students' achievement on standardized tests have been conducted.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The flip side is a standardized test is not why we go to school and you know, it's limited in its uses.

  • Because of these purposes, the role of standardized testing is becoming increasingly important.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Foremost is the question of whether a standardized test is an appropriate form of assessment for the performing arts.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Because children educated in the arts do dramatically better on standardized tests.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Academic programs for the gifted and talented often rely on standardized tests because of state or local requirements.

    Academic text (1991)
  • You know, the notion of standardized testing is in many cases, a source of tremendous, tremendous anxiety.

  • Scores on standardized tests also help planning teams evaluate how well RtI is going.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Public school students in grades 3 to 8 take an average of 10 standardized testing assessments per year.

How Standardized

stanine
  • Specialized
9.7
nationwide
265 3.0
standardized testing
24 3.3
assessment
474 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

standardized + testing

The phrase's meaning is directly and compositionally derivable from its parts: 'standardized' (made to a common standard) + 'testing' (administering tests) yields the idea of tests given and scored uniformly. This is a common, cross-linguistic construction and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words, despite its use in educational contexts.

Etymology

The term standardized testing comes from the idea of giving everyone the same questions and scoring them in the same way. Here standardized means made the same and testing means checking what people know, so the tests are made to let results be 'compared' across students or schools.