Test shows US students trailing in math
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Test results released in Washington Monday indicate US 15-year-olds are performing below the international average in math and problem solving.
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Schools are looking to use an increasingly popular way to analyzing test scores, which tracks the progress of students as they move from grade to grade.
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HOUSTON More Hispanic Texas high school seniors have taken the SAT and have performed better on the college-entrance test. That&#39;s even while there was little change reported in the overall average verbal and
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Parents choose a school more because of its location than its exam results, a big survey suggests.
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Some people have a great excuse for being bad at math -- their language lacks the words for most numbers, U.S.-based researchers reported on Thursday.
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An IT firm is investigating how details of three million British driving theory test candidates went missing in the US.
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LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Of 1.4 million high-schoolers who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 2004, fewer than 1,000 scored a perfect 1600.
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Eighth-grade students in the United States scored better in both mathematics and science last year than in 1999, but still lagged their peers in a number of other industrial countries, according
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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In an ambitious experiment, some 2,500 teachers in the city are being measured on how much their students improve on standardized tests.
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Elementary and middle-school students are making across-the-board gains in math and more modest progress in reading, national test results out Tuesday show.
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The Nation's Report Card shows U.S. students are improving slightly in math, but less so in reading
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The class of 2007 averaged the lowest math and reading SAT scores since 1999, the College Board reported Tuesday.
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American eighth-grade students have made gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday.
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President Bush is beginning his push to require high school seniors to take the math and reading tests now required of younger students under the No Child Left Behind law, the most ambitious item on the president's slate of second-term education proposals.
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A slight decline in scores made headlines, but the real story is that the new test is closing the gender and income gap
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Chimps performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests non-verbal maths skills are not unique to humans.