Interesting. Wow, she's written over 1000 articles. The problem I have with it is exactly what you're saying. Perhaps she is indoctrinated with the view that

Interesting. Wow, she's written over 1000 articles. The problem I have with it is exactly what you're saying. Perhaps she is indoctrinated with the view that "tests are bad". Regardless, it is a popular view and a spicy topic. What bothers me is that this article seems to have a blanket "no, apparently tests are good" tint. Do you agree? The study seems to have absolutely nothing to do with that in particular, and the findings really don't either. I do definitely agree that the writer sounds indoctrinated. The first sentence of the article shows signs: "Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research." This sentence makes me think that the purpose and end of tests is assessing, rather than a means to gather information to enable better learning in the future.