Students across the country struggled with advanced algebra on a first-of-its-kind test in that subject, according to a report to be released this week by Achieve, the nonprofit Washington ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. States that voluntarily took part in a demanding test of advanced algebra skills, given for a second straight year, again saw large proportions of their students ...

Just three years ago, only a third of Hayward students took algebra in middle school. Now, almost all of the district’s eighth-graders tackle irrational numbers, absolute values and the ubiquitous ...

Nothing about Algebra II is easy. Educators applauded lawmakers in June for dumping Algebra II as an end-of-course exam after less than half of students passed the test over its three-year existence.

A nationwide network outage at Pearson, Florida’s testing company, created problems for schools administering the state’s new standardized algebra exam today, officials said. Students were able to ...

After taking Maryland's state algebra test this year, Susan Gruenspecht's students at Westland Middle School in Montgomery County wanted to know: Where was the algebra? They were not alone. University ...

Earlier (Wainer & Lewis, 1990), we reported the initial development of a testlet-based algebra test. In this account, we provide the details of this excursion into the use of testlets. A pretest of ...

Almost 60 percent of Florida students who took the state's tough new Algebra I end-of-course exam earned a passing grade, according to results released by the state on Friday. But that means almost 60 ...

Texas’ first trove of 2021 state standardized test scores offers early confirmation of what many educators feared: students fell dramatically behind in math during the coronavirus pandemic. Results ...

The State Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to remove state incentives encouraging schools to offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The move was both a vote of confidence in the new Common Core ...