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 ACT announced ...

A computer program glitch has, so far, foiled two days' worth of statewide standardized tests for grades 3-8. The state blamed the testing vendor. Calling the problems a "slowdown with the Grades 3-8 ...

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 ...

Crews used around 28,800 gallons of pond water to douse Pompey garage fire Emergency crews responded to a garage fire in Pompey on the evening of Jan. 18. OCWA shifts to voluntary water conservation ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY — Some New York schools, again, experienced issues administering computer-based state assessment exams Wednesday, marking the second straight day the issue has persisted, leading to delays in ...

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 ...