Tammy, I tend to agree with you but I do feel there is some interesting discussion here. Some of the feedback could be getting confused based on how different individuals interpret the words used or the implied intent. I can see some good discussion on a couple different fronts. (1) Any type of assessment can cause stress in students. What efforts are undertaken early in your classroom to lighten the stress level with respect to assessments? (2) If more rigor by means of added assessments is added to a class that is having discipline issues, what results can anyone share that this method has merit? We may not all agree on this topic and how each of us would make use of testing but there will be many answers that are neither totally best practice and others that will be great things to try by others. Experimentation is the key and when all else fails, try something different and see how it goes. Plan effectively, measure accurately, and implement based on what works.