Two educationists have called for an immediate review of the Basic Certificate Examination (BECE) as a mode of assessing ...

A bill meant to replace Texas’ end-of-year standardized test with three shorter tests during the school year appears poised to die in the final hours of the legislative year.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 House favors grading Texas students by comparing their performance to their peers around the country, what is known as a “norm-referenced test.” Proponents of this kind of test say it ...

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.