The lower chamber must now decide whether to approve the Senate amendments or continue negotiations as the legislative ...

The Senate’s rewrite of House Bill 4 reflects a gap in what the chambers want to see out of the new state assessment and the ...

Senate on Tuesday approved the House bill that would scrap STAAR, the state standardized test widely criticized for taking ...

HB 4 would create a nationally norm-referenced test — comparing students' performance to one another rather than to a standard — and creates benchmark tests to measure academic growth ...

In contrast, the SAT and ACT are “norm-referenced” tests, forcing students’ scores ... The developers of the SAT and ACT accomplish this by picking only new test questions that are each skewed (by ...

With less than three weeks remaining in the regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers are working on competing bills aimed at eliminating the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, ...

The House wants to grade Texas students by comparing their performance to their peers around the country in what is called a “norm-referenced test.” Proponents of this kind of test say it ...

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