Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of Americans take high-stakes exams every year. Caiaimage/Chris Ryan/iStock via Getty Images Texas children’s performance ...

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 ...

TAAR measures only a portion of state standards, with passing scores determined after all tests have been scored. STAAR is even unable to measure how much a student learns and grows over the course of ...

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 ...

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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.