The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

For many of us, anxiety about math performance isn’t so much a question of whether it will happen, but at what level of math it kicks in (in my case, Calculus III, sophomore year in college). But, as ...

Student data and assessment company Otus has partnered with Exemplars, a provider of standards-based performance tasks in math, science, and writing, to integrate the latter's math assessment data ...

Sixth-grade teacher Carrie Young guides her students through an exercise on their laptops as practice for Common Core testing at Morgan Elementary School South in Stockport, Ohio. (The Associated ...

Students at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley were welcomed to school recently by a cheery “Happy testing!” over the school’s PA system. They filed into computer labs to take Smarter ...

Problem: Anxiety, as documented by Scott Stossel’s recent cover story in The Atlantic, and the online discussion that followed, is a multi-faceted, variable problem that affects many, many people. And ...

The digital format for this year’s Badger Exam isn’t the only new testing concept that students and teachers must adjust to. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a longer, more ...