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 ...

You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter. The problem with norm-referenced ...

BAIRD, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 8 into law last week, replacing the single high-stakes STAAR exam with ...

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 ...

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.