Since NMET is a large-scale high-stakes test, whose results would be used to make important decisions for the test-takers in the entrance of the universities and colleges.

众所周知，高考是全国性的大规模高风险测试。高考结果要用来决定大量考生是否可以被高等院校所录取。

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Schools should be held to high standards, but some argue high stakes testing has forced teachers to teach to the test.

学校应该有高标准。 但是有人担忧这种政策会迫使教师将教学内容限制在考试内容之中。

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The vigorous debate that emerges from airing these ideas will lead to well-constructed, coherent, and winning strategies... It is important to test our assumptions because the stakes are high.

他们各抒己见，引发了热烈讨论，这将利于制定结构合理、连贯一致的制胜战略检验我们的设想十分重要，因为这事关重大。

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Now that doesn't mean just a single high-stakes standardized test.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

In terms of teachers, how we measure performance -- as I said before, I have been a critic of measuring performance just by the administering of a single high-stakes standardized test during the year, and then the teacher is judged.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

This is one of many bad incentives created by high-stakes testing, and by placing too much faith in the test as a means to improve outcomes.

FORBES: Megan McArdle on Standardized Tests