There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

College students and high-school students preparing to enter college are sorely lacking in the skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that is available online, according to ...

For some children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don't start in the kindergarten classroom -- they happen first in ...

Students at more than 25 community colleges, four-year institutions and high schools across the U.S. are testing a new version of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment ...

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...