The problem is in recent years it has taken on something else... Standardized tests can be a window in the performance and health of the overall system, or ove

The problem is in recent years it has taken on something else... Standardized tests can be a window in the performance and health of the overall system, or over a group of students, but it is not reasonably determinate of the knowledge level of an individual student. Which is how they are often used In the beginning it was used to judge the performance of a teacher or school, today is it used to judge the performance of the student something it is not really equipped for. This is similar to BMI, BMI is useful as a health metric on a population of people, but is not very useful as a metric on the health of an individual