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

The Texas Legislature is considering changes to the STAAR, our state's high-stakes end-of-year test of student performance.

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 ...

EdSource · California program offers $500 in scholarships, but many students miss out Smarter Balanced is what test experts call a “criterion-referenced” test, which is simply designed to find out ...

"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 ...

Bush’s Texas. The Texas Assessment of Academic Skills is a “criterion referenced” test, meaning it was designed specifically to measure achievement against the state’s standards in reading ...

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 ...

The NAEP is a criterion-referenced test. This means it is designed to show how well students know the body of information and skills according to specified criteria. Scores are arranged in three ...

An AJC investigation highlights suspect scores on the state Criterion-Referenced Competency Test in five elementary schools, including one in Atlanta. APS responds that it has no plans to investigate.