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Penda Learning to Add Standards-Aligned Scantron Assessments

The Colorado-based ed-tech company Penda Learning is adding Scantron assessments to its game-based digital science curriculum for elementary and middle schoolers, aligning it with state-specific ...
Education Week

Aligned Science Curriculum, Better Scores? Research Finds a Connection

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify the nature of the organization WestEd. Using an elementary curriculum aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards improved students’ science ...
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Helping Science Teachers with Assessment During NGSS Implementation

The consensus study, Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards” (NRC, 2014), provides guidance on developing assessments that are consistent with the NGSS including assessments ...
EdSource

California’s science test will be added to state school dashboard

The State Board of Education is moving forward with plans to add the state’s science assessment to the California School Dashboard, making it a new piece of the statewide school accountability system.
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Students’ Skills — and Interest — in Science Tumble in First Post-COVID Test

U.S. eighth graders are less prepared to be the scientists of tomorrow than they were before the pandemic. In the first nationwide test of students’ science knowledge since 2019, the percentage of ...
EdSource

No increase in latest national science test scores

American 4th-graders saw a slight dip in science scores on the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress assessment, scores released today show. Middle and high school students, however, showed ...