WASHINGTON (AP) — ACT test takers take note: The No. 2 pencil is losing its cachet. Greater numbers of high school students will be able to take the college entrance exam on a computer next year. The ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The New York State of Education Department said many schools across the state are experiencing a slowdown in computer-based testing systems for third to eighth graders. The ...

Journal of Allied Health, Vol. 29, No. 3 (FALL 2000), pp. 161-164 (4 pages) This study examined the equivalence of computer- and paper-based versions of an examination through score differences across ...

New York Department of Education has been phasing in computer-based assessments, rather than using bubble sheets and pencils. "There's a lot of frustration," Rockland BOCES spokesperson Scott Salotto ...

Drug trafficking ring operated like a business, first of six sentenced this week This week, the first of six people involved in a drug trafficking ring inside the Parkside Commons apartment building ...

With its disproportionate focus on exams and its rigidity in moving to computer-based testing, the state is also culpable. Credit: Getty Images. The recent problems with New York’s school testing for ...

Computer-based state testing was thrown into chaos across New York last week as persistent technical failures plagued schools for two consecutive days. The disruptions — affecting thousands of ...

The exam that governs admission to the city’s most selective high schools will be administered next fall, despite critics’ complaints that the test disproportionately blocks Black and Latino students ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Schools across New York State are facing a shutdown with a computer-based testing system, delaying state testing in grades 3-8. A New York State Education Department spokesperson shared ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — For the second day in a row, several school districts across New York State encountered technical difficulties as students attempted to log in for their state assessments. The ...