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Homeschool Testing Overview
Home » Home School » Homeschool Testing » Homeschool Testing OverviewPosted by Your Guide on March 15, 2006 5:12 PM
“Get out your number 2 pencil, keep your feet under your desk and do not open your booklet until you are told do to so.” Sound familiar to you? Does the thought of either taking or administering a standardized achievement test thrill you with excitement or send chills of fear up your spine? Testing can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but for the purposes of this article, the term testing will follow the definition supplied by Wikipedia which says, “Standardized testing is any test that is used across a variety of schools or other situations. Designers of such tests must specify a discrete correct answer for every question. This type of test includes both achievement (which measures knowledge already known) and aptitude (which attempts to predict future performance or potential) tests given to grade-school students, the English GCSEs, and the American SATs.”
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