Assessment and Testing

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The Providence school district is in the middle of an initiative to recognize skills and give academic credit for learning taking place outside school.
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R.I. Students Gaining 'Badges,' Credits Outside School

The Providence school district is in the middle of an initiative to recognize skills and give academic credit for learning taking place outside school. (February 5, 2013)

Spotlight on Assessment

Assessment is complicated in both practical and policy terms, raising myriad questions of how to best gauge student learning. This Spotlight looks at how schools and experts are approaching assessment.

Spotlight on ELL Assessment & Teaching

Teaching English-language learners is a complex endeavor that more and more schools are facing. This Spotlight examines assessment and instruction in the everyday world of ELLs and their schools.

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Creating Effective Classroom Assessments
In this webinar, Stuart R. Kahl, Ph.D., Deborah Farrington, M.Ed., and Ellen Vorenkamp, Ed.D., focused on the three key elements of creating effective classroom assessment, and how to build teacher capacity in each.

Common Assessments: What You Need to Know
Two groups of states aim to move past multiple-choice-only tests to include essays, projects, and other tasks designed to gauge deeper, more complex learning

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May 7, 2013 - Education Week
Rapid change in education—and society—has intensified the debate to a level not seen since the battles over school desegregation.
May 7, 2013 - Education Week
Technical glitches during recent online assessments in a number of states are prompting worries about schools' ability to administer common-core testing in 2014-15.
May 3, 2013 | Updated: May 7, 2013 - Education Week
The first of two groups of states working to design common assessments has released a draft accommodations manual that outlines the types of test supports that can be used to help ELLs and students with disabilities.
April 23, 2013 - Education Week
April 23, 2013 - Education Week
Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high-school-equivalency test.
April 23, 2013 - Education Week
Education Week Commentary editors look at academic, demographic, and other trends since the landmark report was released 30 years ago.
April 23, 2013 - Education Week
No good can come of shifting the blame from the perpetrators to the system when it comes to organized cheating on standardized tests, writes Michael J. Feuer.
April 9, 2013 - Education Week
Two principals in the Philadelphia District schools have surrendered their administrative credentials as a result of the state's nearly two-year-old investigation into possible cheating on state tests.
April 4, 2013 - Education Week
Beverly Hall, the former superintendent indicted with 34 other educators in the state probe, was nationally known for her success in raising students' test scores.
April 4, 2013 - Education Week

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