PARCC
Assessment
New Setback for PARCC as Another State Abandons Test
New Mexico’s defection from the PARCC test set off another round of speculation that the exam will become extinct, but PARCC’s overseers have other plans.
Assessment
New Mexico Governor Signs Order to Dump PARCC Tests
On her third day in office, Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham fulfills a campaign promise by signing an executive order to dump the PARCC test.
Reading & Literacy
PARCC Sets the Tougher Bar Among Shared Tests, Study Shows
The PARCC test is harder than some of its competitors, but nearly all states have raised the bar on tests in recent years.
Standards
PARCC Common-Core Test Gets Federal Approval
The new decision by the U.S. Department of Education conveys unconditional approval of the PARCC test as a measurement of Maryland's standards. But that finding doesn't yet apply to its use in other states.
Assessment
Colorado to Downsize PARCC Testing
Colorado will no longer administer the full PARCC exam to students.
Standards
News in Brief
PARCC, Smarter Balanced Choose New Management
The PARCC consortium has chosen a new nonprofit to manage the business of maintaining and administering its test: New Meridian Corp., a brand-new organization led by people from various strands of the assessment world.
Assessment
PARCC and Smarter Balanced Choose New Management
The PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment consortia are adopting new managers to oversee their work in a changing testing landscape.
Assessment
Rhode Island to Dump PARCC, Use Massachusetts Test Instead
Rhode Island becomes the latest state to abandon the PARCC exam. It will use the test designed by its neighbor, Massachusetts, instead.
Assessment
PARCC Undertakes a Major Restructuring (Again)
The PARCC assessment consortium remakes itself once more, making it easier for states to buy its test content, a move designed to share what it sees as a superior assessment and ensure its long-term survival.
Standards
Who Will Run PARCC and How?
Responses to PARCC's "request for information" reflect a lot of soul-searching about how PARCC will survive, and in what form.
Assessment
Opinion
Testing On Devices Ensures Inequity
In a day and age where the public perception of teachers, schools, and school districts is tied more closely than ever to the results of state tests, we cannot afford unknown variables contributing to the final judgment.
Assessment
PARCC Continues to Fade at the High School Level
Rhode Island and Illinois follow a national trend that shows states increasingly dropping PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments in high school, and using them predominantly in elementary and middle school.
Education
New Jersey Postpones PARCC Exam After Technical Problems
New Jersey is one of many states that have experienced problems with the online administering of standardized testing this year.
Assessment
Letter to the Editor
Educator: Online PARCC Test Is 'Inefficient' and 'Unreliable'
To the Editor:
Kudos to Education Week for your investigation of the 2014-15 PARCC test scores that were disproportionately lower when taken online, compared with the paper test ("PARCC Scores Lower on Computer Exams"). What I did not see in your report was feedback from educators who actually took both versions of the test, as I did with several Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers practice tests last spring in English/language arts.
Kudos to Education Week for your investigation of the 2014-15 PARCC test scores that were disproportionately lower when taken online, compared with the paper test ("PARCC Scores Lower on Computer Exams"). What I did not see in your report was feedback from educators who actually took both versions of the test, as I did with several Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers practice tests last spring in English/language arts.