After making standardized tests optional for admissions during the pandemic, elite universities like Dartmouth, MIT, Yale and, most recently, Brown have recognized ...

President Trump signed a memorandum requiring increased transparency in higher education admissions, which can only be ...

Fortunately, efforts are being made to address the problem of biased tests. Test developers purposefully strive to rework exams to ensure that every test-taker is on an equal playing field.

Reasonable people can come to different conclusions about the proper role of standardized testing, what qualities should be measured and how to measure them. Those debates are healthy and productive.

When discussing the pitfalls of high-stakes standardized testing, critics often point out the enormous pressure put on individual students. Perhaps we should hone in more on the pressure felt by each ...

Oklahoma State Department of Education officials now acknowledge that 9,100 students across the state had standardized tests disrupted by the testing vendor's computer problems last week - more than ...

The scope of the testing troubles is still being determined, but many lawmakers detailed other major problems. Battles relayed stories of partial multiple choice lists showing up on students ...

Solving a testing problem To solve that problem, the district decided in 2018 to traverse a series of bureaucratic hurdles to make Cambridge its one and only high school test.

Standardized tests tend to be biased in favor of those whose culture and upbringing most closely resemble that of the test makers--in most cases, white middle-class males who live in urban areas.

To enter certain professions – attorney, accountant, financial adviser, electrician and many others – passing a standardized test is required. To obtain a drivers' license, you have to pass what ...