The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

Students at more than 25 community colleges, four-year institutions and high schools across the U.S. are testing a new version of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment ...

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...

Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests ...

When it comes to downloading music and instant messaging, today’s students are plenty tech-savvy. But that doesn’t mean they know how to make good use of the endless stream of information that ...