Tests give teachers only part of the picture of your child's strengths and weaknesses. Teachers combine the results of many methods to gain well- rounded insights into the skills, abilities, and knowledge of your child. It explains basic features of testing and suggests questions that you might ask your child's teacher. By understanding the role of testing, you can help your child succeed in school and can develop a better relationship among you, your child, and your child's school. Standardized tests are designed to give a common measure of students' performance.
Standardized tests are objective tests that are usually created by commercial test publishers.
Standardized tests can help teachers and administrators make decisions. They help schools to measure how students in a given class, school, or school system perform in relation to other students who take the same test. Using the results from these tests, teachers and administrators can evaluate the school system, a school program, or a particular student. Schools do not use standardized tests to label students as incapable of learning, to place students in a grade or class, to give report card grades, or to evaluate teachers. Different types of standardized tests have different purposes.