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"Standardized Tests." ProCon, edited by ProCon.org, 2017. Credo Reference, https://libproxy.highpoint.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/procon/standardized_tests/0?institutionId=2970. Accessed 24 Oct 2017.
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Pro: 20 school systems that “have achieved significant, sustained, and widespread gains” on national and international assessments used “proficiency targets for each school” and “frequent, standardized testing to monitor system progress
Con: Standardized tests are unfair and discriminatory against non English speakers and students with special needs.

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Pro: Standardized tests are reliable and objective measures of student achievement. Without them, policy makers would have to rely on tests scored by individual schools and teachers who have a vested interest in producing favorable results.
Con: Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance. A 2001 study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and “caused by fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in learning

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Pro: 93% of studies on student testing, including the use of large-scale and high-stakes standardized tests, found a “positive effect” on student achievement, according to a peer-reviewed, 100-year analysis of testing research completed in 2011 by testing scholar Richard P. Phelps.
Con: After No Child Left Behind (NCLB) passed in 2002, the US slipped from 18th in the world in math on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to 31st place in 2009, with a similar drop in science and no change in reading

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Been around since the mid-1800's. Use skyrocketed after the No Child Left Behind Act which mandated annual testing in all 50 states