How Assessment Reform Can Reinvigorate K-12 Learning

Districts should invest in ongoing, practical training that helps teachers understand both new technology and how formative ...
KTVZ

Oregon statewide student assessment scores show progress, but ‘more work ahead’ to return to pre-pandemic levels

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Education released results Thursday from the Oregon Statewide Assessment System’s spring 2024 summative tests, which they said "highlight there is more ...
Education Week

Educators, Parents Hold Mixed Views on Testing

Parents, teachers, and district administrators consider formative and interim tests far more valuable than summative assessments, according to a recent survey. And if state test results arrive more ...
American Enterprise Institute

Reimagining Standardized Testing: How a Hybrid Assessment System Can Benefit Students, Teachers, and Administrators

America’s K–12 standardized-testing system has fallen short in providing educators with the necessary tools to improve student achievement. Administering frequent hybrid exams—which combine ...
Education Week

Push to Limit Federal Test Mandates Gains Steam

For more than a decade, teachers, administrators, students, and even parents have criticized the No Child Left Behind Act—and, now, the Obama administration’s waivers under that law—for giving too ...
EdSource

Local assessments an option if Smarter Balanced tests ‘not viable,’ U.S. education officials affirm

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select ...
StamfordAdvocate

Stamford high schools suspend midterms, finals — and may never return: ‘There are better ways to assess students’

STAMFORD — City high schools will not be holding midterm and final exams this school year, and the long-standing practice of end-of-semester assessments may never return in Stamford. The tests were ...
The Republic

Indiana schools get legislative green light to break up ILEARN testing throughout school year

INDIANAPOLIS — An option for schools to divvy up portions of Indiana’s ILEARN exams was approved by state lawmakers at the end of the 2024 legislative session and will change how thousands of Hoosier ...