Do the computer-based exams that are increasingly prevalent in K-12 education measure skills and knowledge as accurately as traditional paper-based tests? With news that millions of students who took ...

The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to replace current educational assessments with new tests that provide a net increase in the overall utility of the assessment system to stakeholders on ...

Asking students and schools to switch to a new mode of assessment does affect students’ performance, but problems might be more short-lived than some educators fear, finds a new study by the American ...

Contemporary assessment methods in the United States and other parts of the world reflect the progressive development of the education sectors’ legal and organizational environments. The systems have ...

The discussion during the workshop highlighted a number of key challenges that must be addressed when performance assessments are used for accountability in the federal adult education system: (1) ...

New York Department of Education has been phasing in computer-based assessments, rather than using bubble sheets and pencils. "There's a lot of frustration," Rockland BOCES spokesperson Scott Salotto ...

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...