Academic Leadership - Seattle Boycott Article Response (Diego Blank)

In response to the Seattle Boycott article
(http://processofliving.com/2013/01/27/under-pressure)

      The current mood that any student would be on a particular day would essentially affect a test grade. The idea behind all the standardized testing, as of my opinion, should be diminished and the use of personal portfolios would be best.  Why? The use of these portfolios would bring widely more accurate results than a standardized test, and as for the student they could have the chance to demonstrate their full potential.  I would agree with the High School Garfield teachers for bringing up a valid point, that not only certain students should think for standardized testing to be reduced but also for teachers to say that this kind of testing does not make the student academically progress through their learning career.
      Thus, bringing all the academic results from each individual student, that would be assembling all pieces of valid information in each's individual portfolios, could be harder to assemble than it would be as a standardized test. As standardized tests would be easier for the administrators to manage to bring everything to average, portfolios would be better for the student's true overview and also affect how somebody would look upon that individual.
      The best thing to do would be integrate a little bit of both into one system that would permit the student to still reveal their full potential trough an academic portfolio. Finding a good way to stop conflict amongst teacher, parents and students themselves would be essential but somewhat challenging, so more time and more thought should still be put in this in order to develop a new MAP testing.
      Of course this does not go as far as only my opinion. I am aware that certain schools will defend standardized testing and keep it that way, thus if there would be an alternative that approaches a student's accurate abilities it would be academically better to integrate that to more schools.  

This is the link to the article.
http://processofliving.com/2013/01/27/under-pressure/

Diego Blank