Tag: standardized testing
A Look at the True Impact of COVID on Learning Benchmarks
The nationwide STAR assessment, testing children of grades 1-8, recently released a report with its findings. According to Renaissance, the test shows a mild drop in reading and literacy, but a significant 7 percentage point...
How Technology and Data Can Improve Standardized Testing
Without data from the usual classroom-based and state assessments last spring, one big question on everyone’s mind is how to approach this school year while addressing learner needs.
Understanding How Commercialization in Education Led to 2020’s AP Tests: Ratified
After the nation issued a national emergency on March 13, 2020, the impact on public education rushed in like a tsunami. Schools shut their doors and hustled to transition to remote education. The word “unprecedented,”...