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• v  cause to conform to standard or norm
  The weights and measures were standardized
• v  evaluate by comparing with a standard
• s  brought into conformity with a standard
  standardized education
• s  capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability

• Success on standardized tests is, of course, only one measure of learning--and only one purported goal of homework.
• A Frenchman, the psychologist Alfred Binet, published the first standardized test of human intelligence in 1905.
• One way of determining the rigor of state exams is to compare them to standardized tests given nationally.

• standardize
• standardise
• standardised
• exchangeable
• interchangeable
• similar

News & Articles

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• Duncan To Allow States Flexibility on Test Scores and Teacher Evaluations
  Connecticut To Seek Permission Not To Use Standardized Test Scores In Teacher Evaluations Next Year; To Take Steps To Avoid Double-Testing Connecticut will seek permission to defer the use of standardized test scores next year to evaluate teachers' performance, now that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has said he will consider such requests.
  June 18, 2013 - Hartford Courant
• BlackRock Weighs Merits of Standardized Corporate Bond Issues
  BlackRock Weighs Merits of Standardized Corporate Bond Issues
  June 17, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Perry signs bill cutting number of standardized tests for graduates
  After several years of resistance from educators’ and parents’ groups, Governor Rick Perry on Monday signed into law a bill that slashes the number of standardized tests for high school graduates from
  June 17, 2013 - The Pasadena Citizen

Quotes

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• Henry Paulson in Toronto Star
  As we develop plans to purchase equity......we are working to develop a standardized program that is open to a broad array of financial institutions,Paulson said in a statement.
• Barack Obama in MiamiHerald.com
  Don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend most of the year preparing him to fill in a few bubbles on a standardized test,Obama said Tuesday. "Let's finally help our teachers and principals develop a curriculum and...