The vacuum blood collection tube market experiences transformative growth driven by chronic disease management requirements, technological innovation ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

A new perspective: standards-based criterion-referenced assessment approach A standards-based criterion-referenced assessment (CRA) approach is evaluation of originality based on specific, ...

The bill would have replaced the STAAR test with three shorter tests, but House and Senate lawmakers seem unable to reconcile differences.

The STAAR’s technical documents suggest that the test is designed much like a norm-referenced test – that is, assessing students relative to their peers, rather than if they meet a fixed standard.

The STAAR’s technical documents suggest that the test is designed much like a norm-referenced test – that is, assessing students relative to their peers, rather than if they meet a fixed standard.

Norm-referenced tests provide data, but without criterion-referenced tests, you don't actually know whether students are mastering the skills. I would also hope that the test is more culturally ...

OPM ‘merit’ hiring plan includes bipartisan reforms, politicized new test The federal government’s HR agency on Thursday instructed agencies to cease collecting data on the demographic ...

A deep dive into the test’s framework suggests it was designed to fail about the same share of students every year, even if they’d made actual progress from previous years.

The Texas Senate on Tuesday approved the House bill that would scrap STAAR, the state standardized test widely criticized for taking instructional time away fro ...

(The Texas Tribune) The Texas Senate on Tuesday approved the House bill that would scrap STAAR, the state standardized test widely criticized for taking instructional time away from teachers and ...