An inescapable element of K-12 public education in the United States is testing. For many students and parents, testing has become ubiquitous. It feels like it is everywhere, every day, all the time.

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) recently approved the use of Curriculum Associates' i-Ready ® Diagnostic as a norm-referenced assessment ...

Standardized testing has practically become a tradition within the American school system. But why? How did standardized assessment become such a big part of education? How does it really work?

The Developmental Assessment of Young Children-Second Edition (DAYC-2) is a norm-referenced measure of early childhood development for children from birth through age 5 years 11 months. The DAYC-2 ...

The purpose of formative assessment is to adjust teaching and learning. For example, a grade one teacher may test the decoding skills of a grade one student to determine whether specific phonics ...

This experimental study was designed to determine whether the levels of guessing, risk-taking, or achievement could vary under norm referenced or criterion referenced testing conditions. Subjects were ...

There’s a big difference between testing that measures what kids have learned and testing that simply ranks them against one another, Mary Lynn Pruneda writes, explaining the options to replace the ...