Using one standardized test to choose placement in an academic route would be called tracking and for some reason is a terrible thing to do.
No, “tracking” is just having different academic routes—what the school is already doing. If you can find someone who has a strong opinion on the difference between tracking based on standardized tests vs local grades, I will be very surprised.
Well, it would be tracking either way, but it wouldn’t be called such if it was entirely informal, which is what it appeared based on the OP.
Using one standardized test to choose placement in an academic route would be called tracking and for some reason is a terrible thing to do.
No, “tracking” is just having different academic routes—what the school is already doing. If you can find someone who has a strong opinion on the difference between tracking based on standardized tests vs local grades, I will be very surprised.
Well, it would be tracking either way, but it wouldn’t be called such if it was entirely informal, which is what it appeared based on the OP.