The Department of Education just handed out $330 million in grants to two state coalitions to design the “next-generation” tests of students’ readiness for college and careers. It’s gotten me thinking ...

Florida’s parents want and deserve to have confidence that their children’s teachers have a strong understanding of the subjects they are teaching. The state’s subject-specific teacher certification ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

Nothing in the debate about improving schools is arguably more misunderstood than teaching to the test (“No Child Left Behind: how to end ‘teaching to the test,’ ” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23). But the ...

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

I have never been good at standardized tests. In fact, I’m horrible. The problem is that in standardized tests, as opposed to general knowledge or understanding of a particular problem, you need to ...

An aspiring teacher (left) works with students in a first-grade classroom. Most candidates who take a commonly used licensing test fail on their first try, and a quarter never pass. Photo by Aaron ...

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Nicky Dulfern's research was commissioned by the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. NAPLAN tests – the literacy and numeracy tests given to primary and secondary students – are ...