Texas’ first trove of 2021 state standardized test scores offers early confirmation of what many educators feared: students fell dramatically behind in math during the coronavirus pandemic. Results ...

Spurred by a succession of reports pointing to the importance of algebra as a gateway to college, educators and policymakers embraced “algebra for all” policies in the 1990s and began working to ...

Test results show a tale of two school systems across the Lehigh Valley, with suburban districts Southern Lehigh and Parkland ranking in the top 10% statewide and the large urban districts of ...

I’m neither a mathematician nor math teacher. Plenty of the readers of this blog do fall into those categories, however, and today I’m seeking them out. A new report by Achieve, released today, shows ...

High school students’ scores statewide and in Austin saw improvements in Algebra 1 since 2024, but declined in English tests, according to end-of-course assessment data newly released Tuesday. The ...

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Earlier (Wainer & Lewis, 1990), we reported the initial development of a testlet-based algebra test. In this account, we provide the details of this excursion into the use of testlets. A pretest of ...