Most undergraduate institutions in the United States are using more comprehensive tools for assessment to evaluate students’ skills instead of traditional standardized tests, according to the Trends ...

State Superintendent Susie Hedalen is excited about the new MAST format, even as the first results show room for improvement ...

With many of the standardized assessment tools, there have been many websites and mobile apps that will help to convert the scoring systems to meet the G-coding system. This is very helpful, but it is ...

Three years before the common assessments are fully operational and rolled out, we see ripples from the common standards affecting assessment. Take as one example the many questions hovering about ...

Standardized testing has practically become a tradition within the American school system. But why? How did standardized assessment become such a big part of education? How does it really work?

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.

The Auditing Standards Board recently issued six clarified Statements on Auditing Standards related to risk assessment resulting from its clarity project, through which all of its auditing standards ...

Each year, tens of thousands of students from thousands of schools across the globe vie for the chance to call themselves Bruins. One of the few things unifying that massively varied applicant pool: ...

America’s K–12 standardized-testing system has fallen short in providing educators with the necessary tools to improve student achievement. Administering frequent hybrid exams—which combine ...

Standardized tests have dominated the school reform discussion for years, with students scores used — often unfairly — to judge the kids as well as their schools, teachers, principals, districts and ...