An attractive alternative, however, is use of adaptive testing, which can improve measurement in the range of higher order skills. (educationnext.org)
Cognitive psychology has long since reached a level of sophistication that enables it to explain why it is highly ineffective to teach higher - order skills as formal structures. (educationnext.org)
We don't know much about how, exactly, the assessments will look, but they promise to match the kinds of higher - order skills demanded by the standards. (edutopia.org)