While abysmal math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exams have parents and educators worried about students’ futures, English learners made a surprising gain, scoring four ...

The government has defended tests for Year 6 pupils across England, after some parents and teachers said a paper in this week's Sats was too difficult. One head teacher said the English reading test ...

The Occupational English Test (OET) is a specialized English proficiency exam for healthcare professionals seeking to work or ...

The Bridge English Placement Test measures competencies in all English language and academic skills, including reading, writing, listening and speaking. Per University requirements, incoming ...

The WIDA ACCESS language proficiency test is used across close to 40 states as part of the federal requirement to determine whether English learners continue to need language-development services. The ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

Imagine a physics program that won’t teach the theory of relativity. Or an English department that shuns Shakespeare. That would be equivalent to how U.S. schools of education treat the most effective ...

A SATs reading test that left pupils in tears included an extract from a book with a ‘13-18 reading age’. Hundreds of parents and teachers claimed that last week’s exam for Year 6 pupils – aged 10 or ...