News that millions of students who took the PARCC exams on computers tended to score worse than those who took the tests on paper raises an important question: Do the computer-based exams that are ...

Fourth graders are capable of using a computer to type, organize, and write well enough to be assessed, according to a pilot study released July 24 by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The digital version of the state English Language Arts exam will be given to elementary and middle school students in nearly one-quarter of Long Island's 124 public school districts this week — a big ...

The New York State assessments got off to a bit of a bumpy start this week. Students around the state had problems with computer-based testing Wednesday. Some teachers said the second day of testing ...

Test-refusal advocates and the state’s largest teachers union were up in arms Wednesday after a technical glitch caused delays for some students taking the state English Language Arts exams on ...

Steve Graham received funding in the past from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to conduct reviews examining effective writing instruction and assessment. Students who recently took the ...

For the second straight year, New York's attempts to administer computer-based standardized tests for English language arts assessments have been affected by problems. This year, that has meant ...