The problem with assessing children based on standardized tests is that it fails to look at the child as holistic individual and merely reduces the child - with all his / her potentialities to a mere statistic. The problem is that there are no many tests available that can measure the real potential of a child and hence we are forced to use, at least partially some of these tests.
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