In 2016-17, states’ testing systems have begun to settle down after several years of transition sparked by the Common Core State Standards. By now, most states have chosen not to use the PARCC and ...

California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select alternatives in cases where these tests are not “viable” to ...

Today, Smarter Balanced announced a new initiative to develop measurement-focused principles and guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educational assessments. With experience ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. If state lawmakers follow the recommendation of a task force, Iowa school districts will no longer use ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

New scores on Connecticut’s Smarter Balanced test, a mathematics and English assessment for grades 3 through 8, show high-needs students improving at a faster rate than other students. Overall, ...

Washington County schools will join Oregon's Deputy Superintendent, Rob Saxton, to learn more about the new state tests Hillsboro School District is pleased to host the Washington County Smarter ...

The state of South Dakota has been administering the Smarter Balanced Assessment since the Spring semester of 2015. Not much has changed since the initial implementation of the tests until this year.

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...

Beginning this month, Hawaii public school students in grades 3-8 and 11 will start taking a new state assessment that better informs educators on each child’s progress toward being ready for college ...

Parents, teachers and school administrators who want to know how students are doing academically during the pandemic will have another report card to turn to this year. As school districts continue to ...