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The rise of remote psychoeducational testing: What school leaders need to know

January 6, 2026 by Stephanie Taylor, Ed.S., NCSP, Taylored Education Solutions

Remote testing isn’t just a novelty--it’s a practical, scalable solution that is rooted in evidence to help students with mental health.

Special education is at a breaking point. Across the country, more children than ever are being referred for evaluations to determine whether they qualify for special education services.

Student Well-Being

The importance of teacher-student relationships

April 15, 2025 by Dr. Yuvraj Verma, Bessemer City Middle School & William Howard Taft University

Students are motivated by teacher-student relationships when they know teachers genuinely care about their academics and personal growth.

Middle school marks the transition from late childhood to early adolescence. Developmental psychologist Erik Erikson describes the transition as a shift from the Industry vs. Inferiority stage into…

District Management

Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success

February 6, 2024 by Paige Shoemaker DeMio

Policymakers must take action to support states and districts in implementing high-dosage tutoring to ensure opportunities for student success

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, students have faced unprecedented levels of learning loss because of school closures and interrupted learning. In fact, recent national testing shows…

Curriculum & Assessment

4 simple strategies to help students ace standardized tests

April 3, 2023 by Ben Talsma, Learning Solution Specialist, Van Andel Institute for Education

Standardized tests have their place in the world of education, but that doesn’t mean they need to be traumatic for the students taking them

Standardized tests can be hard on students. Many of us still remember the frustration and anxiety we experienced when we were younger and sat down for our first…

ELL

Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers

December 5, 2022November 3, 2022 by John Kleeman, Founder, Questionmark

As globalization increases, it’s become critical to design inclusive tests for those whose native language differs from the test language.

Language is a significant barrier to fair and inclusive testing, particularly if language fluency is not relevant to the skill being measured by the test. This is why…

Newsline

With Rising Concerns About Dyslexia in Young Learners, Riverside Insights Introduces First-of-its Kind Playbook to Streamline Evaluations

September 14, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

ITASCA, Ill. – Riverside Insights®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today debuted a new Assessment Playbook focused ... Read more

DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access)

How to ensure digital equity in online testing

December 7, 2022July 6, 2022 by Dennis Pierce

If educators aren’t paying attention to digital equity, the integrity of online exam results could be called into question

As more high-stakes exams transition to an all-digital format, experts warn that students who are not as digitally literate as their peers could be placed at a disadvantage.

Newsline

SmarterServices Integrates Calculator Application into SmarterProctoring to Eliminate Distractions, Create Equity, and Promote Academic Integrity

March 14, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

PITTSBURGH, PA – Student success is an utmost priority for SmarterServices, which has led to a recent partnership with ClassCalc ... Read more

District Management

Addressing students’ pandemic ‘learning loss’

December 17, 2021 by Dr. Toby A. Travis, Founder, TrustED

Moving forward, those who are keepers of standardized tests will need to recalibrate for things such as learning loss, student learning, and more.

A new phrase as a result of the pandemic, “learning loss,” captures the concern that students’ learning has been compromised over the past year and a half. However,…

Curriculum

Leveraging digital testing to build student confidence

November 23, 2021 by Kevin Stringfellow, Associate Director of Client Solutions, ExamSoft

With digital testing, multiple data points become key to creating confidence in students and helping them achieve academic goals.

Year after year and in study after study, we see the same thing: Confident students are better students. But, as one student pointed out in a 2019 survey,…

District Management

Be prepared: It’s a cliché for a reason

February 22, 2021February 16, 2021 by Kevin Hogan

A district's new AV implementation positioned it to be uniquely situation to handle learning changes when COVID-19 emerged

According to Tony Spence, for a district to be ready for everything, it has to constantly be preparing for something. And maybe be a little bit lucky. In…

Newsline

Nureva HDL300 system is now Microsoft Teams certified

January 12, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

Nureva Inc., an innovator in advanced audio conferencing solutions, announces that its Nureva HDL300 audio conferencing system is now certified ... Read more

Student Data Security

Are you protecting health data amid COVID-19 testing and tracking?

December 5, 2022December 8, 2020 by Ryan Cloutier, Principal Security Consultant, SecurityStudio

Schools are tasked with adhering to COVID-19 protocols, and this means screenings—adding sensitive student and staff health data to the mix

There’s no point mincing words: School districts and administrators have had a heck of a year. Not only have you been under immense pressure from parents and state…

Newsline

Riverside Insights Launches Battelle Early Childhood Assessment with Updated Data Validity

October 7, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Riverside Insights®, a leading developer of research-based assessments that provide insights to help elevate potential, announced today the official launch ... Read more

Newsline

New “Testing America’s Freedom” Podcast from NWEA Examines Equity in Education

October 6, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

6 strategies help school leaders and educators fight discrimination and promote equity in schools.

NWEA, the not-for-profit educational assessment provider, announced today the launch of its new podcast, Testing America’s Freedom. Hosted by Dr. Aaliyah ... Read more

Newsline

Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron Appointed to the Association of Test Publishers’ CEO Council

October 6, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

The Association of Test Publishers (ATP), the leading international organization for publishers of assessment programs, has named Curriculum Associates’ CEO ... Read more

Newsline

Simplify student health care management

June 30, 2020June 9, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Frontline School Health Management has expanded their offering to include COVID-19 training, tracking, data analytics and reporting for students AND ... Read more

Classroom Innovations

7 strategies to improve vocabulary instruction

January 23, 2020January 21, 2020 by Stephanie McKew, M.Ed.

A decline in knowledge could be reversed with new approaches to vocabulary instruction.

Two-thirds of students in the U.S. are struggling with reading and the gap is widening, according to recent NAEP testing. Although insufficient decoding skills are typically thought to…

District Management

20 K-12 edtech predictions for 2020

January 3, 2020January 1, 2020 by Laura Ascione

What edtech trends will take top billing in schools and districts in the new year, like this crystal ball with predictions for 2020.

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2020. Social-emotional learning will remain…

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A classroom teacher’s guide to reducing test anxiety (and testing!)

October 5, 2018 by Katie Williams

As educators, sometimes it seems like all we ever do is jump from preparing our students for one assessment to another. Reams have been written about the corrosive…

District Management

Hold up: End-of-year testing doesn’t always carry weight

August 22, 2018 by Laura Ascione

While end-of-year testing influences how teachers teach, experts caution against making major decisions about students around a single test. A survey from Instructure, creator of the Canvas learning…

District Management

Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

November 22, 2017November 15, 2017 by Hilary Scharton

The testing effect, also known as retrieval practice, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning, needs a place in today’s modern learning. It can be implemented in modern learning management…

eClassroom News

School sees massive literacy boost thanks to new assessment attitude

April 19, 2017April 17, 2017 by Heidi Busk

At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, 82 percent of Morgen Owings Elementary School’s students were working below grade level. Now, six months later, just 40 percent…

Ancillary

TC- What student choice and agency actually looks like

February 15, 2017November 15, 2016 by Daniel Owens

Student agency, which we might loosely define as students’ ability to influence their own learning, undoubtedly plays a critical role ... Read more

District Management

Survey: Teaching demands taking toll on educators

May 18, 2016May 13, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

U.S. teachers say they are frustrated with testing, changing agendas, lack of influence A new survey reveals teachers are concerned ... Read more

District Management

When will assessments finally test deeper learning?

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 by Stuart Kahl

Technology is making the multiple-choice question obsolete. Can assessments keep up?

Teaching Trends

Editor’s Picks 2015, No. nine: Why you should stop testing and start assessing

December 21, 2015 by Torrey Trust

One educator issues a challenge to all: skip the Scantron and discover what students really know Ed. note: This year ... Read more

IT Management

Posting PARCC exams on social media is copyright infringement

March 31, 2015 by By Marc J. Weinstein

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IT Management

Tough slog ahead in Congress for NCLB rewrite

February 20, 2015 by By Kyung M. Song, The Seattle Times

U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Lamar Alexander earlier this month announced a symbolic breakthrough in the decadelong ideological wrangling over how to rewrite the nation's chief education law.…

IT Management

Smarter Balanced tests demand more of students

February 18, 2015 by Susan Parrish, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.

This article is no longer available.

District Management

Where is our obsession with testing leading us?

February 12, 2015 by By Robert Sun

A look at global STEM powerhouses, particularly those in Asia, show that high-stakes testing doesn’t always mean successful students, and it certainly doesn't mean these models are repeatable…

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3 startling misconceptions about student testing

February 7, 2014 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

A new report is shedding light on what the nation might not know but teachers have known for a while: Time spent on testing depends on district requirements…

IT Management

A really scary headline about kindergarteners

February 6, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

Rob Saxton is Oregon’s deputy superintendent of public instruction, reports the Washington Post.

IT Management

The defiant parents: Testing’s discontents

January 23, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

Anna Allanbrook, the principal of the Brooklyn New School, a public elementary school in Carroll Gardens, has long considered the period of standardized testing that arrives every spring…

The rise of remote psychoeducational testing: What school leaders need to know

The importance of teacher-student relationships

Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success

4 simple strategies to help students ace standardized tests

Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers

With Rising Concerns About Dyslexia in Young Learners, Riverside Insights Introduces First-of-its Kind Playbook to Streamline Evaluations

How to ensure digital equity in online testing

SmarterServices Integrates Calculator Application into SmarterProctoring to Eliminate Distractions, Create Equity, and Promote Academic Integrity

Addressing students’ pandemic ‘learning loss’

Leveraging digital testing to build student confidence

Be prepared: It’s a cliché for a reason

Nureva HDL300 system is now Microsoft Teams certified

Are you protecting health data amid COVID-19 testing and tracking?

Riverside Insights Launches Battelle Early Childhood Assessment with Updated Data Validity

New “Testing America’s Freedom” Podcast from NWEA Examines Equity in Education

Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron Appointed to the Association of Test Publishers’ CEO Council

7 strategies to improve vocabulary instruction

A classroom teacher’s guide to reducing test anxiety (and testing!)

Hold up: End-of-year testing doesn’t always carry weight

School sees massive literacy boost thanks to new assessment attitude

TC- What student choice and agency actually looks like

Survey: Teaching demands taking toll on educators

When will assessments finally test deeper learning?

Editor’s Picks 2015, No. nine: Why you should stop testing and start assessing

Tough slog ahead in Congress for NCLB rewrite

Smarter Balanced tests demand more of students

Where is our obsession with testing leading us?

3 startling misconceptions about student testing

A really scary headline about kindergarteners

The defiant parents: Testing’s discontents

Why interactive solutions are a smarter investment for schools

Lerner Publishing Group Launches Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Genius and Joy Curriculum

School Specialty LLC Announces Acquisition of Nasco Education U.S.

100 Learning Spaces Transformed, $5 Million Invested: School Specialty and College Football Playoff Foundation Celebrate Impact Across Schools Nationwide

ACT and Texas Instruments Collaborate to Enhance Student Success in Mathematics

Big Ideas Start Young: Games for Change Opens 2026 Student Challenge to Game Creators and Innovators Ages 10–25

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