Educational Forms, Formal Education
March 11, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdReasonable people can come to different conclusions about the proper role of standardized testing, what qualities should be measured and how to measure them. Those debates are healthy and productive. It’s less productive when we stake out our positions without […]
July 1, 2021
Via: Inside Higher EdAt more than 70 percent of colleges, placement tests determine whether students need to take remedial courses. If those tests are inaccurate, students may find themselves incorrectly placed on a remedial track and enrolled in noncredit classes that delay them […]
April 3, 2020
Via: Ed SurgeChanges to a major standardized test usually take months—or even years—to develop and are typically announced well in advance of the first official exam sitting. Not so during a pandemic. On April 3, the College Board offered details about alterations […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies
December 11, 2018
Via: Ed SurgeA single hallway nestled inside Murray High School houses a newly redesigned middle school where students have been mapping out their colonization of Mars, organizing local and national election campaigns and designing labyrinthine escape rooms for the past three months. […]
January 28, 2016
Via: Education WeekFlorida’s public schools may get to use alternative tests such as the SAT and ACT for their yearly tests. A Senate panel voted Tuesday for a bill that would give school districts the option of switching from the Florida Standards […]
July 1, 2024
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