Smarter Balanced is what test experts call a “criterion-referenced” test, which is simply designed to find out whether students know the material. Most school teachers write and use ...

And the public and news media never understood that the test was designed to get that result. The promise of criterion-referenced tests is that the test-makers presumably determine in advance that ...

"For the most part, the most accurate measure of a student's performance is the state criterion referenced test, because it is aligned most closely to state standards. However, parents are very ...

Purpose To identify criterion-referenced standards for cardiorespiratory fitness ... A pseudo-dataset representing the 20-m shuttle run test performance of 1 142 026 children and youth aged 9–17 years ...

While a criterion-referenced test determines if students have mastered specific skills, a norm-referenced test, as called for in HB 4, gives teachers an idea of how students performed compared to ...

Graduation requirements in the state include earning 22.5 credits in certain subjects and taking the College and Career Readiness Assessment and Criterion Referenced Test, according to the Nevada ...

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.

A Louisiana lawmaker wants the state to explore alternatives to the standardized test students take each year. Senate Bill 105 by Sen. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles, initially called for the state ...