A brief history of the standardized test and SB7. « Fred Klonsky's blog

A brief history of the standardized test and SB7. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

A brief history of the standardized test and SB7.

by Fred Klonsky

Graphic: Tucker Nichols.

From the Good website:

Today standardized tests are big business, but the testing world was once dominated by nonprofits. The first effective multiple-choice test-scoring machine was developed in the early 1960s by a University of Iowa education professor named Everett Franklin Lindquist, who believed the only legitimate use of a test score was in helping a classroom teacher diagnose individual students’