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Assessment & Accountability


Department of Ed Awards $708 million in Contracts for Nation's Report Card Assessments

The National Center on Education Statistics, the primary federal agency in charge of collecting and analyzing data related to education, has just awarded several multi-million dollar contracts to five education and testing companies as part of a five-year contract to administer the next generation of assessments for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 03/14/13

Gordon Report: New Assessments Will Need Continued Scrutiny

A two-year independent commission studying the future of education and especially the effective use of assessment to measure student learning has issued a public policy statement calling for policymakers to turn their attention on the use of assessments to providing timely information to students and teachers rather than school and teacher accountability.

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 03/12/13

Pearson VUE Acquires Testing Software Developer Exam Design

Pearson VUE, the assessment services wing of Pearson, has acquired examination software development company Exam Design.

  • By Kevin Hudson
  • 03/11/13

PARCC Releases Guidance for Common Core Assessments

PARCC--one of the two organizations tasked with developing assessments for Common Core State Standards--has released a new set of resources designed to help teachers and administrators prepare for the impending 2014 assessments.

  • By David Nagel
  • 03/05/13

Kno Advance Lets Publishers Convert Flat PDF Files into Interactive Textbooks

Education software company Kno has debuted Advance, a new platform that can convert PDFs and other flat document files into interactive electronic textbooks at no cost.

  • By David Nagel
  • 02/12/13

Compass Learning, GlobalScholar Form Partnership for Personalized Learning

Compass Learning and GlobalScholar are partnering to integrate their digital curriculum and assessments and adaptive testing software.

  • By Tim Sohn
  • 02/05/13

Mursky named Director of Professional Learning for Smarter Balanced

Beginning Feb. 4, Chrystyna V. Mursky will fill the role of director of professional learning for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

  • By Kevin Hudson
  • 02/04/13

Edmentum Integrates Measure of Academic Progress, Study Island

Edmentum is now integrating assessment tools from nonprofit organization Northwest Evaluation Association with its online Study Island mastery and test preparation program.

  • By Tim Sohn
  • 01/17/13

New Insight 360 Provides Immediate Access to Assessments

eInstruction has released a new version of Insight 360, integrating the platform with a range of mobile technologies intended to give classroom teachers more immediate access to formative and summative assessments.

  • By Chris Riedel
  • 01/16/13

Common Core Technological Standards: They Are the Tail, Not the Dog

Up to now, test makers have been the dog--and education has been the tail. But the test makers are increasingly out of touch with students who use mobile devices for everything including learning. The dog is, finally & rightfully so, becoming the tail.

  • By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
  • 01/14/13

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