Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes ...

One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page worksheets in addition, subtraction, ...

As a last word, I think that even if you aren’t into specs grading and the whole no-partial-credit idea, this way of doing timed testing could still work. I should give credit where it’s due and say ...

In an essay by Hilary Phan, published by UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools, she estimated that between 40% and 60% of high school students are negatively affected by test anxiety. Test anxiety ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods like timed tests.