I recall that for many years, the New York City Board of Education reported norm-referenced scores, and the newspaper headlines would scream that half the students in a given grade were “below ...

In contrast, the SAT and ACT are “norm-referenced” tests, forcing students’ scores into a bell curve-shaped pattern, with most students scoring in the middle and fewer students scoring at the high and ...

Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) recently approved the use of Curriculum Associates' i-Ready ® Diagnostic as a norm-referenced assessment for reading and ...

The norm-referenced evaluation approach, which aims to maintain a prescribed percentage for each grade, cannot truly reflect the language abilities and skills of students. This is why the 60 per ...

I recently did a peer-reviewed deep dive into Texas' test design documentation to figure out why the reported results weren't ...

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.