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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Without full-day kindergarten, many students will be at a disadvantage in the common-core era, Laura Bornfreund writes.
December 4, 2012 - Education Week
The Smarter Balanced consortium will present only one performance task each in math and literacy, in addition to multiple-choice and other items.
November 29, 2012 | Updated: December 12, 2012 - Education Week
There are critical questions to address on technology and other issues in planning for reading assessment tied to the common-core standards, Breyette Lorntz writes.
November 29, 2012 - Education Week
States spend, on average, $34 per student on assessment, according to a national study released by the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy.
November 29, 2012 | Updated: December 7, 2012 - Education Week
When she took over as principal in 2010, Saliyah Cruz thought Communications Technology High—now involved in a state-led cheating investigation—was a high-perfoming school.
November 28, 2012 - Education Week
A commission says accountability testing is impeding research on tests that gauge deeper learning.
November 13, 2012 - Education Week
November 6, 2012 - Education Week
On the new tests, the first in the nation to be explicitly aligned to the common core, students scoring "proficient" or better fell by a third or more.
November 2, 2012 | Updated: November 19, 2012 - Education Week
October 30, 2012 - Education Week
A who's who of researchers studying the use of student scores in staff reviews agrees on one point: Tread carefully.
October 25, 2012 | Updated: November 19, 2012 - Education Week

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