Replacing the STAAR test is a high-stakes decision, and not one to make lightly or in reaction to the avalanche of complaints that accompany any testing regimen.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The effect of the textbooks was measured using a criterion-referenced test in each of the three subjects. In addition to controlling for demographics and prior academic performance, the researchers ...

The final sprint is here. Pennsylvania must submit its Race to the Top application for competitive education stimulus funds by Tuesday. There is a lot on the line as the state could receive as ...

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 ...

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. I recently did a peer ...

House Bill 4 would have replaced the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test with three nationally norm-referenced tests, which lawmakers hoped would give teachers real-time ...