Assessment Processes and Standardized Tests. Are they compatible if we look for quality in education?

Abstract

Is there a disjunction between evaluative processes and standardized tests? Are they compatible if we seek, in these terms, quality in education? In the literature, there are terms on quality linked to education; however, quality is a score on a standardized test. On the other hand, they treat the school from the point of view of the business world, where success is attributed to academic performance, confusing quality in education with the necessary structural and material conditions. The importance of this article lies in exposing this disjunctive, which was approached theoretically, presenting an inquiry-type research that allowed us to reflect on this correlation. The results showed a latent distance between evaluative processes and standardized tests oriented toward summative evaluations. It is concluded that education and, in particular, evaluation has become a lucrative business whose purpose is to make comparisons between individuals with specific and, on several occasions, unique characteristics, measuring the student body without a value in the object to be measured.