Even well into this era of standardized testing, it is clear that many important questions remain. Most importantly: How good are the tests themselves? Do they actually measure what they were designed ...

A meta-analysis published in Heliyon revealed that oral fluid (OF) tests do not provide accurate indications of when individuals last used cannabis or the substance’s intoxicating effects. Researchers ...

Precision medicine has touched every aspect of healthcare today, and—as is evident from President Obama’s State of the Union speech for 2015—is front of mind with the federal government, which ...

A third-party testing firm has deemed Florida’s new battery of statewide standardized exams valid, meaning the test scores will be used to help decide whether students should be held back, to ...

Cancer is becoming less deadly in America. According to the recently released Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, overall cancer death rates have continued to decline by about 2% per ...

Florida's high stakes tests taken by millions of school children are valid, according to a new independent study.But the study released Tuesday by the Department of Education continues to raise ...

The first reason for caring about how sensitive our standardized tests are to instruction is moral. If the tests we use to judge the effects of instruction on student learning are not sensitive to ...

There are valid criticisms about the current structure of state standardized testing in schools; the solution is not to get rid of these assessments but rather to design them differently. Federal law ...

Florida’s new standardized test is a valid, but its debut this spring was “problematic” and schools should not make “critical decisions” about students based solely on results of its computer-based ...