The Meritocracy Is Under Siege
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…
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College Board will add ‘adversity score’ for everyone taking the SAT
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
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
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
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?
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”
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
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
The United Arab Emirates is set to roll out a standardised test to assess moral education nationwide, making it the first country to quantify how schools fare in shaping students’…
‘Paper-based exams will survive for at least a decade’
Tes profiles Saul Nassé, Cambridge Assessment’s new Group Chief Executive. Quote: “the end-of-study exam has got a lot of years left in it yet”. “What you don’t want to do…