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Standardized tests are administered and scored consistently, allowing for reliable comparisons across test takers, and can encompass various formats beyond high-stakes or multiple-choice tests. In contrast, non-standardized tests may vary significantly in administration or grading, often reflecting everyday classroom assessments. While standardized tests are perceived as fairer and more objective, they face criticism regarding equity in educational standards among different schools.

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Standardized Test Vs Classroom Test 506

Standardized tests are administered and scored consistently, allowing for reliable comparisons across test takers, and can encompass various formats beyond high-stakes or multiple-choice tests. In contrast, non-standardized tests may vary significantly in administration or grading, often reflecting everyday classroom assessments. While standardized tests are perceived as fairer and more objective, they face criticism regarding equity in educational standards among different schools.

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Standardized Test
 A test that is administered and scored in a consistent,
or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are
designed in such a way that the questions and
interpretations are consistent and are administered
and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.
 Any test in which the same test is given in the same
manner to all test takers, and graded in the same
manner for everyone, is a standardized test.
 Standardized tests do not need to be high-stakes tests,
time-limited tests, or multiple-choice tests.
 A standardized test may be any type of test: a written
test, an oral test, or a practical skills performance test.
 The questions can be simple or complex. The subject
matter among school-age students is frequently
academic skills, but a standardized test can be given
on nearly any topic, including driving tests,
creativity, athleticism, personality, professional
ethics, or other attributes.
Non-Standardized test OR Classroom test
 In which either significantly different tests are given
to different test takers, or the same test is assigned
under significantly different conditions (e.g., one
group is permitted far less time to complete the test
than the next group) or evaluated
differently (e.g., the same answer is counted right for one
student, but wrong for another student).

 Most everyday quizzes and tests taken by students


during school meet the definition of a non-
standardized test everyone in the class takes the same
test, at the same time, under the same circumstances,
and all of the students are graded by their teacher in
the same way.
 However, the term standardized test is most
commonly used to refer to tests that are given to
larger groups, such as a test taken by all adults who
wish to acquire a license to have a particular kind of
job, or by all students of a certain age.
 Because everyone gets the same test and the same
grading system, standardized tests are often perceived
as being fairer than non-standardized tests. Such tests
are often thought of as fairer and more objective than
a system in which some students get an easier test
and others get a more difficult test.
 Standardized tests are designed to permit reliable
comparison of outcomes across all test takers,
because everyone is taking the same test.
 However, both testing in general and standardized
testing in specific are criticized by some people.
 For example, some people believe that it is unfair to
ask all students the same questions, if some students'
schools did not have the same learning standards.

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