The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, has approved a set of descriptors for the tests it’s designing for the Common Core State Standards. They lay out how many ...

Group testing algorithms are an emerging frontier in applied mathematics and computer science that focus on the efficient identification of defective items within large populations through pooled ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A group that is developing tests for half the states in the nation has dramatically reduced the length of its assessment in a bid to balance the desire for a more ...

Testing students in groups can help them retain more of what they have learned, according to a team of researchers led by Ronald N. Cortright, an assistant professor of health and human performance at ...

Researchers Mario Guarracino the HSE Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis in Nizhny Novgorod and Julius ?ilinskas and Algirdas Lančinskas from Vilnius University, have ...