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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Standardised tests - such as those often referred to in primary schools as the Sigmas, Micras and Drumondras - routinely attract bad press, not least at this time of year when 2nd, 4th and 6th class ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House committee on public education advanced a plan that would eliminate the state’s current standardized test and replace it with a new type of testing that is designed ...