Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A computer program glitch has, so far, foiled two days' worth of statewide standardized tests for grades 3-8. The state blamed the ...

ACT test takers take note: The No. 2 pencil is losing its cachet. Greater numbers of high school students will be able to take the college entrance exam on a computer next year. The ACT announced ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The New York State of Education Department said many schools across the state are experiencing a slowdown in computer-based testing systems for third to eighth graders. The ...

Students in elementary and middle schools across New York City will spend several hours a day learning through computer programs as part of a “sprint” to boost math and reading scores ahead of state ...

$87,297 raised during the 13th annual Help Fight Hunger Telethon The 13th annual Help Fight Hunger Telethon was Thursday, January 29. Bronze plaque commemorating a WWII soldier, killed in action, ...

With its disproportionate focus on exams and its rigidity in moving to computer-based testing, the state is also culpable. Credit: Getty Images. The recent problems with New York’s school testing for ...

The exam that governs admission to the city’s most selective high schools will be administered next fall, despite critics’ complaints that the test disproportionately blocks Black and Latino students ...

Journal of Allied Health, Vol. 29, No. 3 (FALL 2000), pp. 161-164 (4 pages) This study examined the equivalence of computer- and paper-based versions of an examination through score differences across ...

A computer program glitch has, so far, foiled two days' worth of statewide standardized tests for grades 3-8. The state blamed the testing vendor. Calling the problems a "slowdown with the Grades 3-8 ...

New York Department of Education has been phasing in computer-based assessments, rather than using bubble sheets and pencils. "There's a lot of frustration," Rockland BOCES spokesperson Scott Salotto ...