The topic of the argument is on alternatives to standardized testing for students. The person making the argument is Susan Engel and she is making the argument because she believes that in schools, students’ education levels should be measured by different assessment techniques other than standardized testing. This argument was made on the electronic version of the newspaper titled The New York Times.
The premises of the argument are there haven't been any evidence to show that these tests are helping teachers to help individual children better, the standardized tests protect bad teachers by hiding their little skill, and there is hardly any evidence that shows that rewarding schools with high test scores and punishing schools with low tests scores improves anything. The conclusion of the argument is there should be other ways of measuring what a student is learning in school instead of using standardized testing as a way of measuring what a student is learning.
This argument is in moderate condition because the second premise contains the fallacy called red herring. It is a red herring fallacy because the author of this article diverted from the attention being on the students to the attention being on the little skill of bad teachers.
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