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 ...

Oregon and other states are clicking into online testing, but they still have plenty of glitches to work out. It’s 8:15 a.m. on a Monday in early spring and about two dozen teenagers at Century High ...

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' ...

The Educational Testing Service, creator of the examinations that give Americans the jitters – the SAT, GRE and PSAT – today takes a major step toward eliminating the standardized paper and pencil ...

This spring, over 5.2 million students across the country “tested the test” that will assess Common Core Standards starting next year. As Jaci King, Director of Higher Education Collaboration at ...

So you know your Chaucer, but how about your CD-ROMs? You’ve got Schopenhauer down cold, but how do you handle a spreadsheet? A new test has been designed to answer those questions, giving college ...

When filling a position, you want to be sure the applicants you interview are up for the job. Applicants sometimes word their resumes to make it look like they have more experience or knowledge than ...

Corrected: This story originally gave an incorrect first name for the spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She is Beth Gaydos. Could a computer really be a good judge of student ...