In sum: Test scores have been trending down for over a decade. There are some signs of recovery in math, but not many in ...

The state Education Department has released opt-out rates for English language arts assessment tests for the 2024-2025 school year. You can browse opt-out rates for school districts across New York in ...

This month Mesa Public School students are sitting down to computers to take state assessments. It won’t be the first time that students have taken a standardized test this year. In January and early ...

Education faces a lot of criticism, some with good cause. The U.S. ranks low in reading and math compared with other developed nations. A recent trend to combat our shortcomings is to “assess” ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is urging states to ditch their fill-in-the-bubble and short response tests and work to create a new breed of rich assessments by taking advantage of ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...