BEND, Ore. — Oregon’s new standardized test is a harder test for students and it’s also more difficult for evaluators to score. The Smarter Balanced test measures how students are performing under the ...

The state of South Dakota has been administering the Smarter Balanced Assessment since the Spring semester of 2015. Not much has changed since the initial implementation of the tests until this year.

More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

Students at McKinley Elementary had a variety of reactions to a computer-based assessment they took Tuesday. Some marched through it, jotting notes on scratch paper. Others were flummoxed by ...

Although Wisconsin students won't be taking the new Smarter Balanced Assessment exams until spring of 2015, area districts have already been preparing for them by doing practice tests. For more ...

For the second year in a row, most Los Angeles Unified students — with the exception of 11th graders — won’t be taking the Smarter Balanced standardized test that’s usually mandated by the state each ...

Changing its earlier position, the California Department of Education will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month and not wait to incorporate them into other data as planned, a department ...