further the paper attempts to bring forth various debates associated with nostakes standardised tests and it summarises empirical evidence on the effects of testing on teaching and learning outcomes standardised testing is often used in oecd countries as a means to assess students teachers and schools however across countries substantial differences exist in test purpose design implementation and use of test results kellaghan et al the term standardised test refers to tests that are designed externally and aim to create conditions questions scoring procedures and interpretations that are consistent across schools popham wang et al