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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new bill calls for the state education board to explore possible alternatives to the LEAP test as the state's contract is set to end in 2027.

Texas children's performance on an annual reading test was basically flat from 2012 to 2021, even as the state spent billions of additional dollars on K-12 education.

Texas lawmakers widely agree on the need to scrap the state’s standardized STAAR test, which is loathed by kids, parents and teachers alike. But an effort to do so this legislative session ...

Texas’ annual reading test adjusted its difficulty every year, masking whether students are improving By Jeanne Sinclair , Memorial University of Newfoundland Updated May 31, 2025 12:03 p.m.