A version of this article appeared in the October 26, 2011 edition of Education Week as NAEP’s Odd Definition of Proficiency Related Assessment Study Questions Fate of NAEP in Common-Test Era ...

When Maj. Teresa Ruotolo, an Army National Guard Soldier assigned to the 165th Military Police Battalion, signed up for the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge test here May 31-June 2, she did ...

Another state redefines ‘proficiency’ on Common Core tests, ... But had the state used PARCC’s definition, ... Arkansas has pulled out of PARCC and is shifting to a new test in 2016.

Last week, the results of a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that Washington fourth- and eighth-graders score above average compared to their ...

About 16 people are involved in the proficiency test. "When we come together for this testing, it is all hands on deck," Ostazeski said. "It's rare to find a team pulling together like this team ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne's administration plans to lower the criteria to pass a test used to measure the English proficiency of students learning English as a second language.

In the wake of a seismic shift in how the nation’s most-used English-proficiency test is scored, a growing number of states have lowered their criteria for students to exit English-learner ...

The test measures proficiency in four domains — listening, speaking, reading and writing in English. The test is different for each grade. But since transitional kindergarten, often referred to as TK, ...

The high number of English learners who have been unable to pass the proficiency test for years shows Proposition 203's one-size-fits-all English language immersion approach hasn't worked, they say.