The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has selected a developer for its online, open source solution for reporting results from student assessments. Smarter Balanced is working to develop a system ...

A new volume released by the National Academy of Education (NAEd) this month, Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems, "expands upon our understanding of balanced assessment systems and provides ...

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 ...

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium released a sizable sampling of online assessment items, giving teachers, educational leaders, and members of the public an early look at what kinds of items ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - 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 ...

One of the things I hear most frequently on my beat, reporting on common standards and assessments, is frustration with the lack of instructional resources available at the moment. (See one of my ...

Rick Stiggins, author of the new book The Perfect Assessment System (ASCD), agreed to answer a few questions. Rick is the founder and retired president of the Assessment Training Institute (ATI), a ...

State auditors said Smarter Balanced student assessments are confusing and unpopular, according to a new audit report. Though these concerns have come up in the past, the audit team now suggests a ...

The Dec. 2 op-ed written by my fellow Oregon teacher raises serious concerns about the need for teachers to know what tests their high school students will be asked to take next year ("Oregon should ...

Beginning in August, Delaware parents and guardians will have the option of allowing their children to skip the state’s annual assessment, which currently is the Smarter Balanced Assessment System.

(TNS) -- Sacramento, Calif.'s Howe Avenue Elementary School, the largest elementary school in the San Juan Unified School District, is in a threadbare neighborhood of strip malls, faded homes and ...