Tests/Testing Filtering Down (Or Moving Up?)

A recent article reports that test taking is increasingly being used by companies as a hiring factor. Most of these are assessment tests in which applicants rate themselves on personal questions. Companies then use the results to help them determine who makes it to the interview stage. Testing, you see, has become the raison d’etre in businesses and in schools. Once upon a time, schools were said to lag behind modern business practice. But apparently that lag is gone. Proponents of school testing can now cite businesses’ use of tests and vice versa.

Where does it all end?