Two educationists have called for an immediate review of the Basic Certificate Examination (BECE) as a mode of assessing ...

Lehighton Area School District’s board of directors approved a $23,005 expenditure Monday for MAP Growth, an assessment system designed to track student progress and inform instruction. The cost, ...

A new perspective: standards-based criterion-referenced assessment approach. A standards-based criterion-referenced assessment (CRA) approach is evaluation of originality based on specific, ...

In the bill, lawmakers sought to create three smaller tests that would shift how the state measures students from a criteria-referenced test to a norm-referenced assessment, or from one that ...

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.

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.

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 ...

He referenced the influence of big money on the topic, referring to a $12 million campaign donation to Abbott by billionaire Jeff Yass, a prominent proponent of education savings accounts. “The last ...

After nearly 11 hours of debate, the Texas House voted to approve its version of SB 2, which would create a universal education savings account program, allowing families to use taxpayer dollars to… ...

On Wednesday, the Texas House is expected to take up a years-long anticipated vote on Senate Bill 2 — which would establish education savings accounts (ESAs) — and House Bill 2 — the public ...