With a growing number of schools are doing what public urging, abandoning test attracts a lot of enthusias all over the world. Even the country, which always implements exam-oriented education, China is no exception. In 2007, a Test Forbidding Crisis had swept Chengdu, Sichuan to stop the increasing burdens from testing. The former governor of Chengdu announced, “Developing education is the root of development to the country rich and people strong, whereas, exam-oriented education’s pressure breached this principle.” Although that revolution failed, it did report on Chinese developing direction and alerted people the failure of formalistic test. When testing system is on the brink of death, the world hear the last struggling voice of test defenders-is there any alternatives to standardized tests?
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First of all, various assessments can replace standardized tests. One of the most efficient assessments is know as stealth assessment. "Invisible, integrated assessment, to me, is the future," Kimberly O'Malley, the senior vice president of school research at Pearson Education said, "We can monitor students' learning day to day in a digital scenario. Ultimately, if we're successful, the need for, and the activity of, stopping and testing will go away in many cases." Another popular assessment is called "portfolio-based
First of all, various assessments can replace standardized tests. One of the most efficient assessments is know as stealth assessment. "Invisible, integrated assessment, to me, is the future," Kimberly O'Malley, the senior vice president of school research at Pearson Education said, "We can monitor students' learning day to day in a digital scenario. Ultimately, if we're successful, the need for, and the activity of, stopping and testing will go away in many cases." Another popular assessment is called "portfolio-based