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The debate over meritocracy has been intensifying. Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Do we want it or don’t we? The worldwide demand for talent and the accelerated…

College Board will add ‘adversity score’ for everyone taking the SAT

May 20, 2019

The College Board has for several years been testing an “adversity index” designed to place students’ SAT scores in the context of their socioeconomic advantages or disadvantages. The system has…

Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan unite to fight exam cheating

April 6, 2019

The East African regions recently passed the establishment of the Eastern Africa Association for Educational Assessment (EAAEA), which aims at strengthening the fight against examination cheating, Daily news reported.The association…

PISA founder Andreas Schleicher on the future of the education ranking

April 6, 2019

The global education ranking system, the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, is changing to put more emphasis on measuring 21st-century skills, such as creativity and digital literacy and…

PISA set to change

March 24, 2019

The OECD is working to move its international testing program away from standardised, summative testing as debate about the value of such assessments grows louder in Australia and around the…

Is the College Cheating Scandal the ‘Final Straw’ for Standardized Tests?

March 19, 2019

Perhaps no tests have higher stakes in the United States than the SAT and the ACT. For decades the scores were a key data point on the application for virtually…

Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education”

March 4, 2019

The Institute of Education at HSE University Russia welcomes applications for the upcoming Sixth International Summer School “Applied Psychometrics in Psychology and Education” Dates: August 05–10, 2019 Venue: HSE University…

Thousands of foreign students caught in limbo by scandal

February 8, 2019

Thousands of foreign students caught up in an English-language test cheating scandal in Britain five years ago are still in limbo, unable to prove their innocence, with their visas revoked…

UAE set to roll out world’s 1st moral education exam

February 2, 2019