Corrected: This story originally gave an incorrect first name for the spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She is Beth Gaydos. Could a computer really be a good judge of student ...

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 ...

Test-refusal advocates and the state’s largest teachers union were up in arms Wednesday after a technical glitch caused delays for some students taking the state English Language Arts exams on ...

A popular cartoon shows a woman seated at a Human Resources desk. The interviewer asks, “I see you did well in school, but what real-world skills do you have?” The young male replies, “Tests. I can ...

Ohio will soon offer GED tests by computer at five sites, including the Greene County Career Center, as part of the testing service’s move to make all testing computerized by 2014. Ohio is the ...

The law mandates that every state must set standards for what students in each grade should know and be able to do in the subjects of reading, math and science, and that schools measure students' ...