America’s students are not being educated as well these days as they should be. A key reason for this calamity is that we currently use the wrong tests to make our most important educational decisions ...

FRANKFORT (AP) — Kentucky's new education commissioner announced plans Thursday to broaden math and English standards and acknowledged that the system of assessing student achievement remains "a work ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...

This analysis of testing in schools shows what the current debate gets wrong, and how educators and policymakers can create a future where assessments are a more effective part of the teaching and ...

To ensure that students are achieving the General Education Student Learning Outcomes, RIT engages in ongoing assessment of all 16 outcomes on a rotating basis. Faculty work teams developed ...

State education administrators often say, “It’s all about the kids,” yet their actions suggest it’s more about protecting adult reputations than improving student outcomes. They all want students to ...

The Student Congress Assessment Committee utilizes standards from the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS). To learn more about this consortium, please visit the CAS ...

Computer-based testing gives 9-year-old Sailor Hulbert a headache. This year, she has to sit in front of a screen and click through questions three times instead of bubbling in a test booklet once.

On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters considered a slate of ballot questions. Ballot Question 2 stood out in the midst of the four other questions as the only ballot initiative asking about education.