Narrow math tests inevitably drive down real standards because accountability pressures principals and teachers to teach to the test. Conversely, well-engineered tests of the math we actually want ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is often called the nation’s report card because it is the only measure of student achievement given periodically to a sampling of students ...

Sample questions from test measuring basic thinking skills Tests are taken on a laptop computer in the test-taker%27s home Literacy%2C math%2C problem-solving are the areas measured by the tests These ...

Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...