To understand the advancement we have made in education and standardized testing, it is important we understand the history. Standardized testing has been used as a strategy to establish accountability measures for everyone involved in the education process. In 1845, Horace Mann proposed that the schools become vehicles for social advancement, enabling all citizens to live educated lives through which would allow him to administer written exams to the children in place of the traditional oral exams (Gallagher, 2003). Also during the first decade of the twentieth century, Alfred Binet developed an individually administered test of intelligence for use in identifying learning deficiencies in "slow” children who would not profit significantly
