ABSTRACT
This authoritative message dictated to professional educators is abundantly clear, even to those who have historically shunned such utterances. It seems that somewhere along the way in recent years standardized testing came to be synonymous with assessment for many high ranking public officialssome well-meaning, some cynical and politically motivated-and they piled more and more standardized tests upon the desks of educators and their students. We assert that these tests, ostensibly designed to evaluate the academic competence of students and hold those who are failing our children accountable for their actions, rarely succeed in their intent.
