In today’s evolving educational landscape, effective student assessment goes beyond multiple-choice tests and letter grades. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe ...

Declining test scores across the U.S. cause concern. So do reports on student mental health and anxiety. Now that the 2023-24 school year is in session, standardized testing and other forms of student ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey's public school students will be taking a new, adaptive, standardized assessment next spring. The key word here is ...

Students have made some progress toward academic recovery, but overall achievement hasn’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels, new test results show. The data are from the COVID-19 School Data Hub, a 2021 ...

BOSTON — Opponents of using the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test as a high school graduation requirement suggest there are better ways to measure student achievement, should voters ...

Authentic assessment is a type of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of knowledge and skills. Below are some examples of ...

Although national test scores provide clear evidence on student achievement across time, they do not illuminate what is driving gains or losses. Nonetheless, careful examination of test scores can ...

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting national student assessments even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 17-year-old long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) ...

As states across the nation release their annual data from tests administered to students in the 2023-24 school year, we’re beginning to get a clearer picture of how far along we are in our ...

Missouri students show improvement on standardized tests, but scores remain below pre-pandemic levels. Math scores improved, exceeding 2019 levels, while English language arts scores lag behind. A ...

STAAR tests are far from the only standardized exams students take each year. Some districts also give students optional ...