The ACT is a good predictor of college success. Well, part of it is, at any rate. The American College Testing (ACT) examination is the competitor to the SAT examination and, like the SAT, is ...

Precision medicine has touched every aspect of healthcare today, and—as is evident from President Obama’s State of the Union speech for 2015—is front of mind with the federal government, which ...

The first reason for caring about how sensitive our standardized tests are to instruction is moral. If the tests we use to judge the effects of instruction on student learning are not sensitive to ...

A meta-analysis published in Heliyon revealed that oral fluid (OF) tests do not provide accurate indications of when individuals last used cannabis or the substance’s intoxicating effects. Researchers ...

There are valid criticisms about the current structure of state standardized testing in schools; the solution is not to get rid of these assessments but rather to design them differently. Federal law ...

Cancer is becoming less deadly in America. According to the recently released Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, overall cancer death rates have continued to decline by about 2% per ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – A new study of 30 individuals finds most omicron cases were infectious for several days before being detected by a-home rapid antigen tests using nasal swabs. “Pretty ...

The Oregon Legislature called for both inquiries into the Smarter Balanced exams that students first took as the state's federally-required assessments in Spring 2015. Some teachers criticized the ...