ABSTRACT
The positivist approach to the study of social phenomena was enthusiastically adopted into the evaluation of educational performance and potential. This was achieved in 1926 by launching the maiden administration of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in high schools and to the freshmen at Princeton University. As in the investigation of people without context, standardized testing also deletes the subject—the student. Before the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, many sought to change student assessment practices and move away from standardized testing because they realized how detrimental such testing was for students. The teachers developed an alternative to the standardized model which includes three major criteria: "process, validity and creation/review". Public funds are just fine, but much better when they are spent to support 'private' education that virtually guarantees that the children will never have the opportunity to witness education without standardized tests.
