Building a good mathematics test is a surprisingly hard optimization problem. Every item in a test bank carries its own content domain, difficulty level, cognitive demand, and point value, and a ...
Last month, the latest results were released from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The scores dispelled the myth that all international tests are the same. TIMSS ...
A new paper from Jamil Maroun and Christopher Tienken sets out to determine whether a state’s big standardized test measures student learning, teacher effectiveness, or something else. The answer, it ...