The results of a national writing test released Friday show that only a quarter of eighth- and 12th-grade students have solid writing skills, a statistic that Lowcountry school officials say they have ...

Do the computer-based exams that are increasingly prevalent in K-12 education measure skills and knowledge as accurately as traditional paper-based tests? With news that millions of students who took ...

Nearly three quarters of American students who took the first-ever computer-based national writing exam did not communicate effectively, even when allowed to use spell check, a thesaurus and other ...

After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

The results of the fall Standards of Learning (SOL) exams are in at Orange County High School, and writing stands out as the subject where students are struggling. While scores in several subjects are ...