A big part of my confusion comes from the use of norm-referenced tests. For my middle school student, the NRTs used were the Terra Nova test in mathematics and the Stanford 10 reading test.

Norm-referenced means that the test is administered to a sampling of students who supposedly are representative of all the students in the country. In the case of the TerraNova, the sampling of ...

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 ...

Dear Deb,You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter. Why We Need National ...

The month-long slog of standardized testing starts next week in the Muscogee County School District. This is the second year of the state’s most recent accountability exams for public school ...

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 ...

“There’s no test to develop; the test is already out there. There are 100 questions.” Not all states are proposing to use the citizenship test the same way.