A new paper from an assessment expert cautions the state consortia that are designing common tests that while computer-based and computer-adaptive testing offer the possibility of improving assessment ...

When Delaware switched to computer-adaptive testing for its state assessments three years ago, officials found the results were available more quickly, the amount of time students spent taking tests ...

One thing that Virginia students can look forward to when new on-line Standards of Learning tests are implemented in the coming years is shorter testing times. The traditional seventh-grade math test ...

Most educators today would agree that the mission of our profession has become more complex and much more challenging than ever before. Changes in district demographics, societal pressures that ...

A recently adopted computer adaptive test is proving to measure student progress quite well in the Mt. Pleasant school district. Joyce Castellon, the district’s core academic educational technologist, ...

Students in third through eighth grades across the state will begin taking a new standardized test this month, leaving behind the widely panned PARCC test. Yet this year’s new test, called the ...

Students fail tests all the time. But it’s far more likely that today’s tests are failing students. In academic circles, they prefer to call them assessments instead of tests. But whatever they are ...

Research reveals that the scent of coffee alone may help people perform better on the analytical portion of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test, or GMAT, a computer adaptive test required by many ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The current method of measuring patient quality of life using the Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 scale is ...