Talk:Standardized testing and its effects

Shouldn't
Shouldn't this be "effects"? Biscuittin (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It should indeed. I'll move it. Moonraker2 (talk) 17:19, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Essay-like
Statements like "It is with these perceptions that this nation puts our students in danger" are unencyclopedic. In its current form, this page is trying to persuade the reader that standardized tests are bad, or at least mishandled. It feels more like a paper written for an undergraduate education class than an encyclopedia article.

There are other problems—it mistakes the current policies of the United States for the effects everywhere; it provides insufficient interwiki links; it does not appropriately organized the article into sections; it is needlessly verbose; it is unaware of value-added modeling and thus makes significant factual errors; it conflates the most common form of standardized assessment ('bubble tests' taken at a single point in time) with the concept of standardized assessments (=all students take the same assessment under the same conditions); it trashes standardized assessment without considering the only alternative, which is non-standardized assessment (historically, white students take a well-constructed test in a reasonable environment and black students take a badly constructed test under difficult conditions, or are assessed subjectively according to prejudice and favoritism)—but the biggest problem is the essay-like tone. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:18, 10 January 2011 (UTC)