One thing that Virginia students can look forward to when new on-line Standards of Learning tests are implemented in the coming years is shorter testing times. The traditional seventh-grade math test ...

The days of bringing sharpened pencils and brushing away eraser shavings during standardized tests are numbered. That's the case for New York students who take the annual state tests for grades 3-8 in ...

Do the computer-based exams that are increasingly prevalent in K-12 education measure skills and knowledge as accurately as traditional paper-based tests? With news that millions of students who took ...

Education activists are increasingly becoming concerned about the computer grading of written portions of new Common Core tests. Can a computer really grade written work as well as a human being? Here ...