Test scores cannot be easily manipulated or subjectively evaluated, as grades or teacher recommendations might be. In short, an assessment offers a level playing field.
True AND False. It depends. There is a level of
teaching-to-the-test which approaches providing students with an advance copy of the test and the expected answers. Selectively making that available to groups of students may elevate their test scores, and does NOT give an accurate picture of a student's accumulated knowledge, or ability to make connections and apply knowledge to new circumstances being encountered for the first time.
