Principal Bert Strassburg was confident that if his Hilltop Elementary students could take the Minnesota state math test online, teachers would get the information they needed to boost achievement. He ...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers have had to rethink pretty much everything they do with students—and that includes how they give math tests. With many students working remotely, ...

Young people these days live most of their lives online, so why shouldn’t they be plotting graphs and performing advanced calculations there as well? For the first time this spring, students taking ...

Amid the information glut that accompanies the release of statewide test scores comes this interesting insight: Students apparently do worse on math tests when they take them online. That’s the ...

As another school year is getting well under way, educators are faced with starting the process all over again for preparing students for standardized testing. It's not something that can be put off ...

First, the good news: of more than 35,000 Democrat and Chronicle readers who took a 20-question fourth-grade math test online this weekend, about 88 percent got a score of 60 percent or higher. The ...

After making gains in 2012, Minnesota students’ scores on state proficiency tests dropped in most grades and subgroups this year, the state Department of Education reported Monday. The dips came as ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of students across Minnesota will sit down at desks, sharpened No. 2 pencil in hand, for a generations-old ritual: taking standardized tests. The tests -- made up ...