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Teachers most commonly refer to this form of assessment as formative to indicate that children's ideas and understanding have taken shape.2.3 AOLDevis Hayes in 2010 referred to AOL as summative evaluation. Summative assessment is the test that is given at the end of the lesson or semester and also at the end of the school year to check what has been learned. Summative evaluation is used to determine objectives. (Erin D,Caffrey_2009) 2.4 Standardized test The standardized test is perhaps the best known example of summative assessment (A lassoed, gy, Micheal, Riverta Wilon,2008) The Johnson Center (child health and development) has defined the standardized test as “a test administered in a consistent or “standard” manner. Standardized tests are designed to have consistent questions, administration procedures, and scoring procedures when a standardized test is administered according to certain rules and specifications so that the testing conditions are met the same for all test takers. As mentioned by Haladyna, Downing, and Rodriguez (2002), generally standardized tests are a sample of good tests. The definition of a good test according to Harris (1989) and Brown (1987) includes three elements: reliability, validity. practicality (as cited in sofendi,