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 ...

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 ...

For Jeannine Ugalde and her middle school students, using assessment data to inform classroom instruction is a regular part of the school day. Drawing on the results of computer-adaptive tests given ...

The expansion of computer adaptive testing will result in approximately 380,000 Virginia elementary and middle school students taking shorter Standards of Learning (SOL) math tests this spring.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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