Assessment and Testing

The latest news about assessment, including articles, Commentary, and special features.

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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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Common-Core Tests to Take Up to 10 Hours
Testing group PARCC also announced that schools and districts will have 20-day windows for each of the two parts of the assessment.
March 12, 2013 - Education Week
Letter to the Editor
When NCLB Meets 'Hunger Games'
March 11, 2013 - Education Week
Commission Calls for 'Radically Different' Tests
A blue-ribbon panel offers a 10-year plan for assessment systems that go beyond accountability.
March 11, 2013 - Education Week
Push Is On for Common Ways to Identify ELLs
The common-core standards may be paving the way for more uniform definitions for deciding who gets ELL services.
February 26, 2013 - Education Week
Letter to the Editor
NWEA Supports Measures Of Academic Progress
February 25, 2013 - Education Week
5 Largest States Rival or Lag Nation on NAEP Results
Several of the nation's largest states showed gains in math and reading over roughly two decades, a new study says, though there's room to improve.
February 21, 2013 - Education Week
Many Students Don't Need Remediation, Studies Say
New research suggests that a significant proportion of students placed in college remedial courses don't need them.
February 19, 2013 - Education Week
Federal Grant Prospect Reignites Kindergarten-Assessment Debate
The U.S. Department of Education eyes giving $9.2 million to help states devise better tests, including for children entering kindergarten.
February 19, 2013 - Education Week
Commentary
An Opportunity to Talk About Testing
Protesting teachers at a Seattle high school leave the door open for an important discussion about the quality of assessments, writes Celine Coggins.
February 13, 2013 - Education Week
Test Boycott Puts Seattle Teachers in National Spotlight
Teachers at Seattle's Garfield High portray their protest as narrowly focused against one particular test used by their district, not against assessments in general.
February 5, 2013 - Education Week

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