Achievement tests are necessary for evaluating student mastery and growth. Yet achievement data as the sole determinant of student success can unintentionally leave some children behind. As a former ...

A woman who just earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Iowa explored in her dissertation a perplexing question: why don’t English-language learners do as well on ability ...

Are there some jobs that men can do better than women? Over 28 percent of the U.S. labour force work in the construction industry, heavy industry, the military, and public safety jobs which routinely ...

A study by psychologists Phillip Ackerman, Ph.D., of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Anna Cianciolo, Ph.D., of Yale University, suggests that testing for job or task content, not complexity, ...