Education Reform

Test Anxiety: A Major Educational Problem and What Can Be Done About It by Kennedy T. Hill and Allan Wigfield

Waiting Im[Patient]ly

When tests fail those who need it most.

Standardized and Career Tests

The only tests I have taken in my life are standardized school tests and a career test. I have found that neither fully measures what people want it to measure. In the career test I took, I thought that it missed questions about one of the most important aspects of choosing a…

Psycho-educational testing: unfair advantage or personal gain?

We use tests every single day. Whether it’s to test our potential career fittings, our personality or various aspects of human psychology and cognition. Tests are also used in order to test hypotheses and work towards…

The Missing Ingredient

Standardized tests have become the norm in our society for measuring a great amount of aspects in our psychological realm: personality, intelligence, occupational interests, and the like. In particular, multiple-choice exams have been adopted, especially within universities, as a measure…

Oh… I guess I AM the type of person who would get this test result…

Assessing the validity of diagnostic tools: what is being tested?

The reliability of many psychiatric diagnoses and testing thereof has been widely discussed, however, translating this theoretical critique to the assessment of measures used seems to be somewhat disconnected. Many of the solutions proposed to fix the issue…

Does One Intelligence Test Fit All?

Most countries in the world have different methods of educating their youth. I was educated in the UK and my experience there was different to everyone I’ve met from other areas of the world and also from some others in the UK. It then seems ridiculous that students from different parts of…

Is True Standardization a Myth?

We have all experienced standardized tests, whether it was an admissions test, such as the GRE or MCAT…

Cheating Your Way to Success Through Standardized Testing

As I tried to figure out a topic for this blog, I started looking back on my years of education and all the times I’ve been exposed to psychological tests. The ones that came to mind were the standardized tests given to us by the…