Talk:Standardized testing

Template:Cleanup taskforce notice This should be called standardized testing as public policy or something like that, shouldn't it? There's little about standardized testing per se, here. --Larry Sanger

Yes. Vicki Rosenzweig

Moved the public policy stuff--it now gets a "see also" on this page--and wrote a quick-and-dirty piece on this subject. Please look at it for bias and gaps.

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Looks like a great improvement, and a good example of why Wikipedia works (a lot of the time).  :-) --Larry Sanger

If there are no objections, I'm going to put a merge tag on this article. There's another article called Standardized test and I don't think they're both necessary. My own opinion is that this article is more descriptive, but I don't know enough about the subject to feel right doing it myself.

Rhesusmanrhesusman 17:31 UTC 17 April 2005

I agree they need to be merged. The question is which name should the resulting article have? The naming conventions don't seem to give any preference of a gerund form over a noun or vice versa. The subject "Test" should technically be about the test itself and "Testing" is technically about the application and use of the test, but I suppose either article could cover all the material to avoid overlap. Other factors include that this article has a much shorter edit history, possibly meaning that is the more favored name, but also possibly it is just a better connected article. Anyone have good experience from other articles to guide this decision? I'm willing to do the merge if we agree on which way to do it. - Taxman 13:39, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)