ABSTRACT
The primary goal, however, of an academic institution is to educate students to become good educators, scholars, scientists, engineers, artists, philosophers, and others. The success of an academic institution depends on innovative educational techniques that will enable professors in the institution to produce the brightest students after years of association with the university. The more heavily our mass educational system leans on standardized testing, the less learning we are likely to see among our students The dichotomy between the measurable and the immeasurable is readily seen when comparing the phenomenon of air temperature to that of weather. The advent of standardized testing has resulted in a growing number of people and institutions equating test results to a literal and exact measure of complex and highly subjective abilities, aptitudes, and phenomena, even though they are, in truth, figurative measures, estimates and, at base, gut-level appraisals.
