Högskoleprovet, Pisa-testerna, och flera andra prov används för att mäta individers kunskap. Testerna speglas i media och ligger till grund för politiska beslut. Men hur ska en sådan utprövning designas optimalt?

Bakgrundsinformation om provtagare kan användas för rättvisa jämförelser vid kunskapsprov. Det visar statistikern Gabriel Wallin i sin avhandling.

Students who get regular, recommended amounts of sleep, have better academic outcomes, with sleep factoring into about one-fourth of the difference among students' grades, according to a study by researchers at MIT. The researchers found that consistency of sleep as much as a month before an exam was a major indicator.

Fear of failure can prevent students from showing what they know on big tests—but a 10-minute writing exercise can help.

Göteborgs universitet har antagit Stefan Johansson som docent i pedagogik. Han forskar bland annat om prov och bedömning samt elevers självskattning, men har även undersökt effekter av lärarkompetens.

Filippa Mannerheim, lärare i svenska på gymnasiet, pekar på tre stora problem med bedömning av nationella proven. Hon menar att det är dags att återupprätta svensklärarkårens yrkesheder.

Female students appear to be better at sustaining accuracy over time during tests, according to a study that looks at data from the Program for International Student Assessment and compares student performance at different stages of tests.

De blev lanceret som et objektivt redskab til at følge med i folkeskolens udvikling. Men er de kommet til at styre undervisningen og kulturen for meget? Denne podcast af Vov at Vide handler om de omdiskuterede nationale test.

Researchers with NWEA, which produces the Measures of Academic Progress test, say they have developed a way to determine whether students are consistently guessing when taking computerized exams. Findings show that students are more likely to guess on test questions that include more reading, and that male students and black students are more likely to…

The effort to teach kids skills hasn't adequately addressed the knowledge kids need to make sense of those skills. Journalist Natalie Wexler describes how achievement is tied to knowledge that isn't necessarily taught in schools.

Using computing devices in language arts classes may be linked with lower reading scores, particularly for younger students, according to research from the Reboot Foundation. Fourth-graders who used tablets in class had lower reading scores than those who never used them, but older students appeared to benefit by using devices, in a limited capacity, to…

Essays, tests and final projects are often the culmination of learning. But English teacher Kendal Rolley says they can be valuable teaching tools, too.