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.
—Gretchen Ertl for Education Week

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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The consortia devising new common assessments must navigate many obstacles in making the tests accessible to English-learners and students with disabilities.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
In drafting test protocols, the consortia crafting common assessments are using research to sort through the wide variety of state-permitted accommodations for English-learners.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
Each federally financed consortia is crafting common guidelines for accommodating students with disabilities.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
Proposed legislation would lower the number of end-of-course exams as well as the number of core courses students must take.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
If opponents to the education-testing movement want to be persuasive, they must offer a credible path forward, writes David Bernstein.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
The computerized exam will ask students to apply their knowledge of technology and engineering principles to solve problems.
March 26, 2013 - Education Week
A new study finds that increasing enrollment in advanced math classes before high school hasn't led to higher math performance for states on the national assessment in the subject.
March 26, 2013 - Education Week
New studies highlight the complex roles that neighborhoods, schools, interests, and academic expectations can play in school-selection processes.
March 26, 2013 - Education Week
Senate Education Committee Chairman Dan Patrick said that some high school end-of-course tests may scrapped this spring if the Legislature acts quickly enough on a bill that would sharply reduce the number of exams required for graduation.
March 12, 2013 - McClatchy-Tribune
The NAEP policy board grapples with ways to expand participation of English-learners and students with disabilities.
March 12, 2013 - Education Week

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