In a recent critique of Smarter Balanced’s online practice tests for mathematics, educational consultant Steven Rasmussen argues that the assessments are “a quagmire of poor technological design, poor ...

This spring, tests developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will be administered to well over 10 million students in 17 states to determine their proficiency on the Common Core ...

California’s Smarter Balanced math scores may look nearly identical to last year’s, but math educators said they saw at least one glimmer of hope: 3rd-graders. Third-graders’ relatively high scores on ...

The California Department of Education released the second year results of standardized tests in math and English language arts/literacy on August 24, 2016. First administered in 2015 to students in ...

This spring, students throughout Clark County and across Washington will take a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment. Eleventh-graders and students in third through eighth ...

CHARLESTON — The latest report on how West Virginia high school students are doing shows a sea of red for math performance and needed work on English and Language Arts scores, even while graduation ...

The Smarter Balanced Assessment scores were finally released by the NH Department of Education after months of keeping them secret, and the results weren’t good. By using a computer adaptive ...

If Eli Luberoff had his way, no student would need to buy handheld graphing calculators. For nearly a decade, the founder and CEO of Desmos has been building a free alternative that works on web ...

New scores on Connecticut’s Smarter Balanced test, a mathematics and English assessment for grades 3 through 8, show high-needs students improving at a faster rate than other students. Overall, ...

The Smarter Balanced test group announced today that it has partnered with Desmos, a company that created a free online graphing calculator that is giving Texas Instruments a run for its money. As of ...

Four years ago, Bradford’s Fieldcrest Elementary School introduced a new approach to teaching Math. Based on SCDSB teacher Lee Sparling’s “Balanced Math” program, and with funding from the Teacher ...