Q: Will teachers and students be able to practice Smarter Balanced testing ? A: Before the tests are administered spring quarter, students might take several kinds of practice tests.

Other states, however, have managed just fine when substituting the SAT in place of the Smarter Balanced in grade 11, and they have done so while respecting the needs of special education students and ...

In a 34-page report, Rasmussen dissects multiple questions from Smarter Balanced practice tests that are supposed to resemble what students encounter when they sit down to computer terminals this ...

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium put out a request for proposal today seeking a partnership to create a test that both measures standards-mastery and can be used for college admissions.

SACRAMENTO — Results from California's 2022 Smarter Balanced test have revealed that students performed significantly worse than they did before the pandemic. The shift to remote learning was an ...

In a change of an earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a ...

The Smarter Balanced Assessment scores were finally released by the NH Department of Education after months of keeping them secret, and the results weren’t good. By using a computer adaptive ...

Today, Smarter Balanced announced a new initiative to develop measurement-focused principles and guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in educational assessments. With experience ...

Washington, D.C. — New assessments aligned to college- and career-ready standards represent a major step forward in accessibility and accommodation features for students with disabilities and ...

Statewide student results on the standardized tests measuring knowledge of the Common Core standards were essentially flat in 2016-17, after a year of strong gains. The California Department of ...

This surprising workplace practice is key to boosting creative thinking and innovation in a noisy world. In an increasingly ...

Changing its earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a department ...