Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Achievement tests are necessary for evaluating student mastery and growth. Yet achievement data as the sole determinant of student ...

Standardized tests reflect little of what you have learned. Rather, they reveal how well you test. Students who test well have advantages over those who have average or low test-taking ability. The ...

WASHINGTON -- New research raises questions about the relative value of tests used to pick the right person for the job. A study by psychologists Phillip Ackerman, Ph.D., of the Georgia Institute of ...

Committee Conclusion: A spatial ability measure, Assembling Objects (AO), is included in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). Research suggests incremental validity for spatial ...

Most adults never have to take an IQ test. But tests for assessing students’ cognitive abilities, such as the cognitive ability test (Cat), are used in schools around the world. These tests are very ...

A study by psychologists Phillip Ackerman, Ph.D., of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Anna Cianciolo, Ph.D., of Yale University, suggests that testing for job or task content, not complexity, ...