I wrote this about 7 months ago on my website, but didn’t want to lose it with my (infrequent) updates.

While in my education classes at EIU, I was never really convinced one way or the other about standardized testing. Sure, I did great at it, but look who also is in Mensa.
Most of my friends either hated them because they took them seriously and usually did poorly (these are intelligent people who just don’t test well) or they hated them because they knew they would do bad so would not take them seriously (or maybe they did bad because they thought they would…). At any rate, it’s a lot of stress for most kids (or not enough, so the data is bad) and can be very discouraging while teachers spend a lot of time trying to encourage.
So not having been convinced one way or the other, I don’t think that my work experiences in the academic assessment industry have encouraged my beliefs in the current system.
I’ll let you all know when I come up with a better way. (that is, I don’t know one, so hate to complain– just thoughts on the matter).