Turmoil in the Testing Industry

Abstract

Standardized achievement tests are crucial to No Child Left Behind's school reform effort because the legislation requires states to use these tests to measure whether students meet state standards. When insufficient percentages of students pass state tests, schools are judged as failing to make adequate yearly progress. And if they fail to make sufficient progress two or more years in a row, schools—and the educators who work in them—face increasingly severe consequences. At the heart of this accountability system is extensive testing of students in grades 3–8 and in one high school grade in reading and math.

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