Standardized testing is standard practice: aptitude quizzes called Army Mental Tests are conducted to assign US servicemen jobs during the war effort. Stanford Professor Lewis Terman marks the beginning of large-scale individual intelligence testing in characteristics of the Binet-Simon tradition.
The National Education Association endorses the kind of standardized testing that Rice had been urging for two decades. Between and Edward Thorndike and his students at Columbia University developed standardized achievement tests in arithmetic, handwriting, spelling, drawing, reading, and language ability.
The College Board begins to develop comprehensive examinations in six subjects. These examinations include performance types of assessment such as essay questions, sight translation of foreign languages, and written compositions. Lewis Terman and a group of colleagues are recruited by the American Psychological Association to help the Army develop group intelligence tests and a group intelligence scale. Army testing during World War I ignites the most rapid expansion of the school testing movement.
Oakland, California, was the site of one of the first attempts at large-scale intelligence testing of students. By , there are well over standardized tests, developed by different researchers to measure achievement in the principal elementary and secondary school subjects.
Fall of The World Book publishes nearly half a million tests, and by , Terman's intelligence and achievement tests the latter published as the Stanford Achievement Test has combined sales of some 2 million copies per year.
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In , the president of Harvard College proposed a national entrance exam for American colleges. In , the College Entrance Examination Board was established, and one year later, tests were offered throughout the United States in nine subjects. In , Alfred Binet, a psychologist, developed the IQ test as we know it, which was a standardized test of intelligence: the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
From to , various high school tests, vocational tests, and even athletic assessments, were used and statewide testing programs emerged. In , the National Education Association endorsed standardized testing for students. In , the College Board—an organization of American universities and other educational organizations—began development of testing in six subject areas, including assessments such as essays, translation of foreign languages, and written compositions.
The SAT came first, founded in as the Scholastic Aptitude Test by the College Board, a nonprofit group of universities and other educational organizations. The original test lasted 90 minutes and consisted of questions testing knowledge of vocabulary and basic math and even including an early iteration of the famed fill-in-the-blank analogies e. The test grew and by assumed its now familiar form, with separate verbal and math tests.
By the end of World War II, the test was accepted by enough universities that it became a standard rite of passage for college-bound high school seniors. It remained largely unchanged save the occasional tweak until , when the analogies were done away with and a writing section was added.
That section is graded separately from the verbal test, boosting the elusive perfect SAT score from to Originally an acronym for American College Testing, the exam included a section that guided students toward a course of study by asking questions about their interests.
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