Standardized tests claim to measure student learning, academic achievement, and college readiness. What they actually measure is pattern recognition and the stamina to sit still for three hours and ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

AMES, Iowa – Jason Chan makes a point to periodically interrupt his lecture and ask students a question about the material they’ve covered. The associate professor of psychology at Iowa State ...

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Summer's over and school is starting again. For students, school means learning and testing. Most students believe that learning is the real reason that students are in school, and then they are ...

The Virginia Department of Education reported the results of the 2020-21 Standards of Learning assessments Thursday. This is the first SOL testing data in two years after Virginia education officials ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Eight central Indiana school districts are raising concerns about ILEARN testing this year. The group points to constraints due to the pandemic. ILEARN testing requirements haven ...