Thanks to passage of House Bill 8 during the most recent special season of the Texas Legislature, Texas students will have a new battery of tests to take starting in the 2027-28 school year. House ...

The Developmental Assessment of Young Children-Second Edition (DAYC-2) is a norm-referenced measure of early childhood development for children from birth through age 5 years 11 months. The DAYC-2 ...

Standardized testing has practically become a tradition within the American school system. But why? How did standardized assessment become such a big part of education? How does it really work?

The purpose of formative assessment is to adjust teaching and learning. For example, a grade one teacher may test the decoding skills of a grade one student to determine whether specific phonics ...

Standardised tests - such as those often referred to in primary schools as the Sigmas, Micras and Drumondras - routinely attract bad press, not least at this time of year when 2nd, 4th and 6th class ...

There’s a big difference between testing that measures what kids have learned and testing that simply ranks them against one another, Mary Lynn Pruneda writes, explaining the options to replace the ...

Texas children’s performance on an annual reading test was basically flat from 2012 to 2021, even as the state spent billions of additional dollars on K-12 education. I recently did a peer-reviewed ...

CADRE has been involved in a Research-Practice Partnership with assessment specialists from the organization Curriculum Associates on a project that is exploring innovations in the presentation and ...

I recently did a peer-reviewed deep dive into the test design documentation to figure out why the reported results weren’t showing improvement. I found the flat scores were at least in part by design.