The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium released a sizable sampling of online assessment items, giving teachers, educational leaders, and members of the public an early look at what kinds of items ...

Think you could tackle the Smarter Balanced tests? Try our multiple choice quiz, with Smarter Balanced questions drawn from several grade levels, and see how you do.

A small group of states wants to use PARCC and Smarter Balanced test items to make their own assessments. One has reached out to federal officials for clarification that test items should be ...

For example, students taking Smarter Balanced exams may access an item-specific, grade-appropriate glossary, while PARCC similarly provides a pop-up glossary for preselected words.

Smarter Balanced tests, although heavily criticized by Oregon's teachers union and some parents, are judged by a teacher-dominated research team to be high in quality and better than almost any ...

But public and private colleges don’t use scores on Smarter Balanced tests as a factor for admissions decisions ­— a reason students don’t take it as seriously as the SAT and ACT, superintendents have ...

As California schools prepare to administer Smarter Balanced tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards this spring, they face a quandary when notifying parents about the assessments. State law ...

The Smarter Balanced group of 25 states will decide soon the range of testing accommodations to offer English-learners and students with disabilities.

Based on field testing of Smarter Balanced tests in 21 states last year, for example, it’s estimated that only about a third of students in most grade levels will demonstrate proficiency in math.

COOS BAY — Oregon students' Smarter Balanced test results came in higher than expected — and overall, around half are meeting the bar in English and 30 percent are meeting the math standard ...

The Smarter Balanced assessment system allows teachers to administer interim assessments, or frequent academic checks, throughout the year to identify and address student needs.

Smarter Balanced also released performance tasks, which are described as "extended classroom-based activities" that students will also be expected to tackle as part of its assessment system.