When we talk about assessment, people think of multiple-choice tests. After all, today’s students spend a good bit of time filling in bubbles during testing season. And for teachers, a lot is riding ...

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A new free solution directly addresses the Common Core implementation challenges looming ahead for K-12 schools and districts around the country. Edulastic is a web-based formative assessment platform ...

Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. The shift to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in K–12 schools across the country has raised the software ...

Performance Matters has partnered with Key Data Systems (KDS) to provide new Common Core State Standard- (CCSS) aligned assessment items through its Unify platform. As part of the new partnership, ...

The Common Core argument in Louisiana is highly charged and political in nature, but in a nutshell, the state’s commitment to adopting the new standards has been challenged on several fronts. For ...

Since June 2011 when California joined the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, the target date for implementation of computer-adaptive Common Core tests has been spring 2015. With that date now ...