Your students are probably going to be taking additional standardized tests at some point during the school year. The results of these tests are used to determine program eligibility or admission and to evaluate education performance and goals. Besides those tests used for admission into programs or colleges, your students are probably taking some form of standardized test as part of the school or school district comprehensive assessment. Standardized tests are designed to give a common measure of student performance. Educators use these tests to help determine how well school programs are succeeding and to obtain a snapshot of the skills and abilities of each student. Some standardized achievement tests measure how much students have learned about a particular school subject, while others are used to help predict how likely students are to do well in future academic work. For information about how standardized tests scores are interpreted, click here. Because of vast differences in the curriculum taught to students nationwide, but who take standardized tests, it is impossible to use standardized test scores as a perfect tool to measure academic achievement. Standardized tests may be limited in what they assess, but they do provide a measure that can be included with many other types of assessments to create a more comprehensive evaluation of student performance. As a beginning teacher, you will probably not be involved in any school-level decisions about when or how standardized assessments will be given to your students. However, there are questions you should ask your administrator or team leader about standardized testing that directly involve you.