Background: Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability in the US and is twice as common among Hispanic Americans as non-Hispanics. The societal costs of diabetes provide an impetus for ...

British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 38, No. 6 (September 2017), pp. 827-840 (14 pages) This article critically considers the promise of computer adaptive testing (CAT) and digital data to ...

When Delaware switched to computer-adaptive testing for its state assessments three years ago, officials found the results were available more quickly, the amount of time students spent taking tests ...

Students fail tests all the time. But it’s far more likely that today’s tests are failing students. In academic circles, they prefer to call them assessments instead of tests. But whatever they are ...

New Jersey's public school students will be taking a new, adaptive, standardized assessment next spring. The key word here is "adaptive," which refers to computerized tests in which each student sees ...