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

The question of whether suicide is a norm or a taboo, which incidentally is the title of this piece, has now become a question that need to be answered, especially now that the rate of its occurrence ...

There are those who argue that a nationally norm-referenced test would not be aligned with the Texas curriculum, unlike the STAAR, which is a criterion-referenced assessment. This is simply not ...

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 Criterion Mobile Closet is making yet another stop on its nationwide road trip. Following its appearance at SXSW and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall during the 62nd New York Film ...

The state’s 941 accredited private schools take norm-referenced tests for accrediting institutions, said Texas Private Schools Association's executive director Laura Colangelo. The association ...

criterion or norm referenced test with a standardised assessment procedure and (6) instructional manuals are published or commercially available. Articles describing use of the assessment tool were ...

He referenced the profiles of BITS Pilani alumni and compared ... Rao clarified that ‘zero attendance’ actually means that attendance is not an eligibility criterion for appearing for the exams. “The ...

are grades based on how well children meet curriculum outcomes (these are also called “criterion-referenced”) or how they compare to their peers (“norm-referenced”) should grades be ...

whether it’s an episode that wildly deviates from the series’ norm, or just an incredibly well-executed version of the familiar formula. Still, that episodic nature makes TV fundamentally ...