Out-dated Assessment Practice

How many schools still use tests as their major form of assessment? I am certain that the majority of schools, at least in the U.S. rely heavily on this outdated method of assessment. A form of assessment that measures only one thing, how well a student can take that test on that particular day. Tests do not measure long-term learning, only what a student remembers that particular day. We need a better way to assess real learning. These methods being still clung to by schools at all levels, will not help to prepare our students for a society full of unknowns. The jobs our students will get, do not exist today. The problems they will be asked to solve, are not problems today. How could these methods of “educating” our children effectively prepare them for this world? It can’t!

So what needs to be done to fix this problem? Read: What are we doing?