As in past years, I find myself studying the Maryland School Assessment Home Report with little understanding of what MSAs really mean and how the standards for basic, proficient and advanced levels ...

All public school students in grades three through 10 take the Norm-Referenced Test (NRT) section of the FCAT and receive scale scores that range from 424 to 863 across all grades. One purpose of the ...

How effective is the current test-driven accountability movement? How effective is the current test-driven accountability movement? To a remarkable extent, the only evidence of success offered by ...

This study examined the effect of sentence-combining and kernel-identification practice on the syntactic component of sixth graders' reading comprehension, as measured by a cloze instrument developed ...

There’s a big difference between testing that measures what kids have learned and testing that simply ranks them against one another, Mary Lynn Pruneda writes, explaining the options to replace the ...