Today marks the end of the 89th Texas Legislative Session. At its completion, hundreds of bills have been passed and signed ...

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. House Bill 4 would ...

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 ...

This, among other things, prompted me to pursue a Ph.D. in education to better understand large-scale educational assessment ... is designed much like a norm-referenced test – that is, assessing ...

Senate Bill 105 by Sen. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles, initially called for the state to replace the LEAP test with a national assessment beginning in the 2026-27 school year. A task force of ...

Students would take a national norm-referenced assessment at the beginning of the year, middle of the year, and the end of the year. It will give teachers immediate results on testing to see how ...