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 ...

Assessments have long held a strong influence on educational practice, particularly in Title I. From its inception, Title I required the use of “appropriate objective measures of educational ...

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?