Corrected: A table in a story that appeared in the Aug. 5 issue of Education Week included the wrong number for the classroom assessment testing in the 2007-08 year. It is $821.9 million. Many assumed ...

(TNS) — Many assumed — rightly or wrongly — that the common-core era would bring a windfall for companies in the state testing business. But one of the biggest shifts in the landscape so far has been ...

Test preparation and washback in English language assessment represent critical areas of inquiry that investigate the reciprocal influences between assessment practices and learning strategies.

Data is necessary to provide assessment outcomes but data can only assess what it sets out to evaluate. There are many instances when data cannot capture the nuances and subtle effects that occur ...

Abstract A systematic review of research on oral language assessments for four-to-eight-year-old children was undertaken to support a six-year action research project aimed toward co-creating ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Teachers want “more time teaching” and “less on Excel sheets” with many furious this “ridiculous” obsession is disrupting students’ classroom learning. New research from the Australian Catholic ...

All international graduate students, whose first language is not English and who intend to be graduate teaching assistants must take the Michigan Tech English Language Assessment. This assessment ...

This is the first of a two-part series on standardized testing. The second part will run next week. By definition, a standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent manner.

The Testing and Assessment Center (TAC) is part of the CU Book Store academic resources department. TAC offers exam grading using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) scanning as well as exam shredding and ...