President Barack Obama announced last week that 10 states will be exempt from the requirements of the highly-criticized No Child Left Behind legislation. In exchange, those states will have to agree ...

PAGE’s Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim says the ‘high stakes’ focus on comparison-driven assessments leaves children without a sense of curiosity. (Bernama pic) Malaysia’s ongoing education reforms may ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...

Laying out a new vision for science assessments, a panel of the National Research Council Tuesday proposed that states design testing systems that integrate several key types of science learning, and ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Jovid Juraev, a mentor helping to train teachers in Tajikistan, noticed an important interaction when observing Fayzali Oimahmadov’s classroom: “I was observing a Grade 2 Tajik Language class where ...

Students see classroom-based assessments (CBAs) as “largely disconnected” from exams, which has led to a sense of “futility and frustration” for them, a review has found. The National Council for ...