They're foreign too so I'm kinda surprised you've never heard of it before.
The dictionary definition is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.
But they're actually really unfair because they test specific things which may not be relevant to certain curriculums and they also are used with every student, meaning the student with special needs is expected to know and score as well as the regular student as with the advanced student and all that. It's really just terrible and forces school to stop being fun and more about learning the objectives that will be on these standardized tests.
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The dictionary definition is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.
But they're actually really unfair because they test specific things which may not be relevant to certain curriculums and they also are used with every student, meaning the student with special needs is expected to know and score as well as the regular student as with the advanced student and all that. It's really just terrible and forces school to stop being fun and more about learning the objectives that will be on these standardized tests.