11, 2009 by Dan Fletcher.Īs time went on, the SAT and ACT tests were created to test students entering college, then when No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2001, the lucky students in grades 3 through 8 (yay us!) were required to take standardized tests every year in order to determine the quality of public education for all students, according to the PBS.org article “No Child Left Behind – The New Rules.”
“as the Industrial Revolution … took school-age kids out of the farms and factories and put them behind desks, standardized examinations emerged as an easy way to test large numbers of students quickly,” according to the TIME Magazine article “Standardized Testing” published Dec. Standardized tests: You couldn’t have gotten into Pepperdine without taking at least a few of them, and even before the dreaded SAT or ACT, there was a slew of standardized tests throughout primary and secondary school.
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