California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select alternatives in cases where these tests are not “viable” to ...

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Vermont students will be taking a different standardized test this spring. Students will no longer take the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and the Vermont Science Assessment (VTSA) ...

A decade after Connecticut switched to the Smarter Balanced Assessment to measure academic performance, the debate about “over testing,” student anxiety, costs and “teaching to the test” continues.

Every year, policymakers across the U.S. make life-changing decisions based on the results of standardized tests. These high-stakes decisions include, but are not limited to, student promotion to the ...

Its official name is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, but it's better known as the SBAC, a key element to the Idaho Core Standards. And to no one's surprise, the SBAC is in the crosshairs ...

The “Smarter Balanced” standardized tests in math and English language arts that California students will take in the spring to measure their academic progress will have fewer questions and take less ...