In our presentation we would like to show how the items and the results of the Italian national standardized tests can be considered a resource, not only for ministry, but also for schools, teachers and researchers. We start describing some aspects of the Italian Assessment System and then we show examples of questions and we discuss their aims and the theoretical framework (also by comparing with the international surveys like PISA and TIMSS). In the final part we open a discussion about how the standardized tests could be considered a resource
