Large-scale testing, or what many know as standardized testing, often carries important consequences for students. The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make ...

College students and high-school students preparing to enter college are sorely lacking in the skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that is available online, according to ...

A map can do what a Jim Crow-era literacy test once did. It can decide whose voice counts before anyone votes.

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

TCAP retesting begins on May 20, the day before MSCS closes for break. It’s the last chance for third graders to avoid ...

Changes to the state literacy standards this year has been causing some anxiety among teachers and administrators, especially now that annual testing season is upon them. Gwen Walz, assessment ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The push to remove an illegal voting literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution is once again up for debate in the General Assembly. Some lawmakers have been trying for ...