Classroom Assessments Stir Growing Global Interest
Many nations promote efforts to gauge learning and inform instruction.
Accountability based on state-test results has dominated U.S. policy discussions. But around the globe, educators are beginning to pay more attention to the assessments teachers use in classrooms on a daily basis as a powerful lever for raising student achievement.
Last month, regional teams from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and other European nations met here to share ideas for how best to improve classroom assessments that can provide teachers and students with valuable information on how to adjust teaching and learning as it’s taking place.
“Formative assessment—the frequent, interactive assessments of student understanding and progress to identify learning needs and shape teaching—has become a prominent issue in education reform,” notes a report released earlier this year by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a coalition of 30 countries that works to address common economic,...
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