As the recession crimps education budgets, states are beginning to pare the number of standardized tests they give, particularly those that no longer factor into state or federal accountability ...

What happened to norm-referenced testing? I worked as a writer, editor, subtest developer, and trainer for a major testing company for more than eight years. When I began, most nationwide testing was ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House committee on public education advanced a plan that would eliminate the state’s current standardized test and replace it with a new type of testing that is designed ...

I recently did a peer-reviewed deep dive into the test design documentation to figure out why the reported results weren’t showing improvement. I found the flat scores were at least in part by design.

A Texas House bill could reshape how the state assesses students on standardized tests and holds school districts accountable for children’s performance on those exams. House Bill 4 would eliminate ...

This special session, lawmakers have a chance to do what they nearly accomplished just weeks ago: eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, better known as the STAAR test, and ...