If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

The architects of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics explicitly aimed to sacrifice breadth for depth, but that proposition has raised questions about whether assessments can be developed ...

The digital format for this year’s Badger Exam isn’t the only new testing concept that students and teachers must adjust to. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a longer, more ...

Student data and assessment company Otus has partnered with Exemplars, a provider of standards-based performance tasks in math, science, and writing, to integrate the latter's math assessment data ...

Turns out that sheer intelligence is not enough to become a young math whiz. It also takes a good attention span and training your mind to "self regulate" or focus on the task at hand. The measure for ...