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 ...

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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 ...

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' ...

At age 59, Rita Kowalski decided she wanted to use the computer for more than emailing her kids and looking up salmon recipes. Forty-two years after she dropped out of high school to start a family, ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

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 ...

Adults who dropped out of school will have to dig deeper to pass the new GED, which was revamped this year for the first time since 2002. Rather than answer multiple-choice questions on paper, ...

The software being used for state testing in grades 3-8 crashed Tuesday morning across New York, leaving students unable to log in and complete the English language arts tests and causing the state to ...