WASHINGTON — ACT test takers take note: The No. 2 pencil is losing its cachet. Greater numbers of high school students will be able to take the college entrance exam on a computer next year. The ACT ...

A new paper from an assessment expert cautions the state consortia that are designing common tests that while computer-based and computer-adaptive testing offer the possibility of improving assessment ...

Ohio will soon offer GED tests by computer at five sites, including the Greene County Career Center, as part of the testing service’s move to make all testing computerized by 2014. Ohio is the ...

The law mandates that every state must set standards for what students in each grade should know and be able to do in the subjects of reading, math and science, and that schools measure students' ...