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Assessments Throughout US History

By kjohnst1
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    Assessment and Testing

  • 1st Internal Written Exam at Harvard

    Harvard introduced its first internal written examination.

  • Written Exams for Government Funded Schools Introduced in Boston

    Boston intorduces written exams for the government funded schools.

  • 1st Written Entrance Exam at Harvard

    Harvard introduced its first written entrance examinations.

  • Mutliple Choice Test

    Thye multiple choice test is first invented. It provided a solution to how expensive the one-on-one application of the IQ test would be on US army recruits.

  • Stanford-Binet IQ Test

    Leis Terman at Stanford University takes up Binet's intelligence tests and creates the STanford-Binet IQ test.

  • Scholastic Aptitude Test

    The College Entrance Examinations Board was established in 1900 and started to develop the use of multiple-choice tests to measure aptitude after 1918. In 1920 the multiple-choice Scholastic Aptitude Test was designed.

  • Regular Survey Tests

    Conducted by the National ASsessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) These were intended to produce only a nationwide picture, but developed to produce data for the performance of each state.

  • ACT

    The America College Testing Assessment (ACT) is redesigned to enhance emphasis on conceptual and abstract thinking.

  • Blanket Testing

    These are tests of every individual pupil at particular ages.

  • Reading and Math

    Clinton, in his 1996 State of the Union message, declared his intention to make available for all at age 8 a reading test, and for all at age 12 a mathematics test.