As most states have moved to new standardized tests based on the Common Core during the past two years, many also have switched from administering those tests the old-fashioned way - with paper and No ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A standardized math test for about 15,000 students in Minnesota was disrupted by computer problems. The state Department of Education temporarily suspended online testing Tuesday ...

There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state's standardized tests will be graded automatically by ...

Standardized tests claim to measure student learning, academic achievement, and college readiness. What they actually measure is pattern recognition and the stamina to sit still for three hours and ...

Georgia school districts reached different conclusions about the right path forward after glitches mared the online administration of the Georgia Milestones tests. Some are, and others are not, using ...

Last fall, when generative AI abruptly started turning out competent high-school- and college-level writing, some educators saw it as an opportunity. Perhaps it was time, at last, to dispose of the ...

In the past five weeks, Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown have all announced that they would once again require applicants to submit standardized-test scores, ending an experiment that began in 2020.

As most states have moved to new standardized tests based on the Common Core during the past two years, many also have switched from administering those tests the old-fashioned way ...