This newspaper had reported extensively on cheating, but hadn’t dug deeply into a more basic question: Just how good are the exams used to make critical decisions in schools? No one, it turned out, ...

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During a tutoring session last December Jennifer Mueller, a high school student in Whitman, Mass., came up with a second correct answer for a question on the state's high school exit exam -- an answer ...

FEC (forward error correction), a critical component of many modern digital-communications applications, turns otherwise-unusable links into real and practical ...

The largest study to date of testing errors reported by family physician offices in the United States found that problems occur throughout the testing process and disproportionately affect minority ...