As in past years, I find myself studying the Maryland School Assessment Home Report with little understanding of what MSAs really mean and how the standards for basic, proficient and advanced levels ...

You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter. The problem with norm-referenced ...

I, as well as many other parents, received our children's Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) scores, in my case the one my daughter took in second grade last spring. While I understand ...

Texas children’s performance on an annual reading test was basically flat from 2012 to 2021, even as the state spent billions of additional dollars on K-12 education. I recently did a peer-reviewed ...

Thanks to passage of House Bill 8 during the most recent special season of the Texas Legislature, Texas students will have a new battery of tests to take starting in the 2027-28 school year. House ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeanne Sinclair, Memorial University of Newfoundland (THE CONVERSATION) Texas children ...

I recently did a peer-reviewed deep dive into the test design documentation to figure out why the reported results weren’t showing improvement. I found the flat scores were at least in part by design.