California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select alternatives in cases where these tests are not “viable” to ...

More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

Students at McKinley Elementary had a variety of reactions to a computer-based assessment they took Tuesday. Some marched through it, jotting notes on scratch paper. Others were flummoxed by ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...

Changing its earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a department ...

SOONER THIS DATA IS RELEASED, THE BETTER. WE’VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET IT OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LEADERS WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROMISING TO PUSH OUT KEY SCHOOL TESTING ...

SACRAMENTO — Results from California's 2022 Smarter Balanced test have revealed that students performed significantly worse than they did before the pandemic. The shift to remote learning was an ...

In another measure of the pandemic’s corrosive impact on learning, California students performed significantly worse in 2022 on Smarter Balanced, the state’s standardized test. Fewer than half of ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...