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 ...

As parents across the state open the envelopes containing their children’s scores on the new Smarter Balanced assessments administered last spring, only a third of them will see that their children ...

Slightly more than half of the state’s public school students are at or above grade level in reading. The same cannot be said of math. Results of the state’s Smarter Balance assessment show that while ...

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 ...

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 ...