Florida’s new standardized test for students will be mostly online, replacing traditional pencil and paper exams with more complicated computer-based questions. The shift is heightening anxiety inside ...

Australian students are increasingly taking tests on computers. This includes major tests used to check national progress on literacy and numeracy. The idea is this prepares students “for the future”, ...

Testing times: online exams produce different results to paper ones. NarongchaiHlaw/www.shutterstock.com The world’s most important examination is moving online ...

According to a recent statement, all IELTS tests – jointly administered by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge University Press & Assessment – is set to be fully computer-delivered after a “careful ...

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015–16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a ...

News that millions of students who took the PARCC exams on computers tended to score worse than those who took the tests on paper raises an important question: Do the computer-based exams that are ...

Do the computer-based exams that are increasingly prevalent in K-12 education measure skills and knowledge as accurately as traditional paper-based tests? With news that millions of students who took ...