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High Stakes Testing

By grimsley.robyn
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    High Stakes Testing

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    Oral Examinations

    Oral Examinations
    An oral examis required for students to earn their degree from the University of Bologna in Italy.
  • Jun 24, 1400

    Written Examinations

    Louvain University The Belgium Louvain University introduced written exams.
  • Jun 24, 1540

    Written Tests

    St. Ignatius of Lyola in Italy began to use written tests.

  • Oral Examinations

    Oxford University began to require oral examinations for students to earn their degrees.

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson proposes to prepare students for either a life of labor or higher educational via a two track educational system.

  • Noah Webster

    Noah Webster wrote several textbooks for language arts.

  • Written Examinations

    Written Examinations
    Written tests began to be used at Cambridge University. Before written exams it was predominately reciation and a subjective method of grading.

  • Public School

    First Public High School The first public high school opens in Boston, MA.

  • Written Examination

    The use of written examinations become widespread at Oxford University.

  • College Entrance Exam

    The college entrance exam began

  • Subjective Grading Practices

    Subjective Grading Practices
    Grading practices are examined from the same course but varying teachers and a disturbing discrepancy is found. It is decided that a standard assessment process needed to be established.

  • Standardized Testing

    Standardized Testing
    Testing in Cleveland Standardized testing is introduced for it's objectivity because of a large number of students failing in the elementary schools in Cleveland, Ohio.

  • Publish Standardized Test

    First test to assess content knowldege is published.

  • Public Forum

    Iowa State Test The public has been demanding accountability for scholastic acheivement, and standardized testing begins to emerge as a viable option to provide it.

  • California

    California
    California passes a mandatory testing to measure the effectiveness of the school system.

  • Gallup Poll

    Gallup Poll
    Gallup poll reports that majority of Americans believe that standardized tests are correctly assessing student performance.

  • Competency Tests

    Thirty-three states have minumum competency testing mandated.

  • Clinton

    Clinton
    President Clinton puts forth a challenge for each state to begin a 'national crusade for standards', creating national standards in regards to what all students must know to be successful.

  • NCLB

    NCLB
    President Bush enacts the No Child Left Behind law increasing accountability in schools using standardized testing.

  • Promotion

    Promotion in varying grades dependant upon successfully passing a standardized test. Many states require an exit exam to graduate from high school.