The California State Legislature has just approved an ill-conceived idea to allow local school districts to replace the 11th grade Smarter Balanced Assessments aligned with the Common Core standards ...

State lawmakers agreed on doing away with the test in favor of three new ones spread through the school year but reached an ...

Dear Deb,You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter. Why We Need National ...

Once the bill headed to the Senate, they made several changes to H-B 4, one of which included changing it back to a criterion-referenced test. “For a norm-referenced test, you are compared to ...

A big part of my confusion comes from the use of norm-referenced tests. For my middle school student, the NRTs used were the Terra Nova test in mathematics and the Stanford 10 reading test.

While a criterion-referenced test determines if students have mastered specific skills, a norm-referenced test, as called for in HB 4, gives teachers an idea of how students performed compared to ...

Methods A search of four databases was undertaken to identify papers that reported criterion-referenced CRF standards for children and youth generated using the receiver operating characteristic curve ...

The NAEP is a criterion-referenced test. This means it is designed to show how well students know the body of information and skills according to specified criteria. Scores are arranged in three ...

Schools in the Carson City metro area use the College and Career Readiness Assessment and Criterion Referenced Test to test students. For personalized and effective admissions consulting,consider ...

Graduation requirements in the state include earning 22.5 credits in certain subjects and taking the College and Career Readiness Assessment and Criterion Referenced Test, according to the Nevada ...