Assessments based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are coming to many states. To date, 18 states have adopted NGSS. Other states have or are adopting new science standards that are ...

Many facets of our daily lives depend on standards. Standards influence the products we use, the foods we eat, how we communicate, our means of travel, our modes of work and play, and many other ...

Assessment, traditionally used by individual teachers to monitor student learning and to provide a basis for assigning grades, has always been a critical component of the education system (Glaser and ...

Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...

Today’s guest post is written by Thomas Guskey, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Educators have the odd habit of taking simple ideas and making them inexplicably ...