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Grading and Assessment: How to Best Measure Student Success
This report explores the impact of grading policies and practices on student assessment, and the impact of GPAs on students’ futures.
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Competency-Based Education: What It Is and How to Pull It Off
Competency-based education can upend more than a century of tradition in K-12 schools. How schools have made it work.
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Projects, Portfolios, and Performance Assessments
Alternatives to traditional testing aren’t new to schools but interest in them is resurging. What lessons did educators learn from the last go-around with performance measurement? What’s new now?
- Assessment Opinion Secretary DeVos, It's Time to Scratch the 2020 State TestsMadam Secretary, it's time for you to waive the assessment requirements, everywhere and for everyone.
Assessment Opinion I've Changed How I Grade My Students. You Should, TooMy job as a teacher is to help students learn, not to use extrinsic motivation to get them to work, writes Miriam Plotinsky.Assessment Briefly Stated Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have MissedA collection of short news stories from this week.
Assessment When Teachers Are Tough Graders, Students Learn More, Study SaysA study from the Fordham Institute argues that "the mindset that says 'everybody gets a gold star' does more damage than good."
Assessment Reported Essay Who's to Blame for the Black-White Achievement Gap?Why don’t black students perform as well as white students on tests? One reporter considers her personal history to understand this disparity.
Assessment College Readiness Concerns Raised by Latest Round of ACT ScoresThe nation’s high school students continue to struggle in the subject areas that are deemed essential for later success, according to the latest results from the ACT college admissions test.
Assessment ACT to Change How Students Retake Exam, Add 'Superscore'Starting next fall, some students who take the ACT will be allowed to retake individual sections of the college-entrance exam, instead of having to sit for the entire test again.
Assessment Opinion Can Standardized Tests Predict Adult Success? What the Research SaysThere is a link between standardized test scores and later life outcomes. But is there causation? Researchers Dan Goldhaber and Umut Özek explore.
Assessment Briefly Stated Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have MissedA breakdown of high-profile news stories you may have missed during the week.
Assessment Opinion It's Time to End Timed TestsThe research is clear that speed doesn't reflect intelligence, writes Alden S. Blodget.
Assessment Could Testing Wreck Civics Education?As civic education undergoes a renaissance in schools, educators are looking beyond standardized tests to determine whether the lessons empower students to embrace civic behaviors, like voting or volunteering.
Assessment Boosting School Quality Remains a Slog for States, NationThe nation's C grade on this year's final Quality Counts report card is another sign that pursuing educational progress remains slow and challenging for many states.
Assessment Louisiana Ranks 48th on Quality Counts Annual Report CardThe state, which earned a D-plus, ranked bottom of the nation in both 4th grade math and 8th grade math, and scored low on socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment.
Assessment New Mexico Ranks Last in Nation on Quality Counts Annual Report CardThe state, which earned a D, was at the bottom on socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment, but earned a B-plus on how equitably it spends its K-12 dollars.
Assessment Mississippi Ranks 47th on Quality Counts Annual Report CardThe state, which earned a D-plus, scored low on the Chance for Success Index, which tracks a host of socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment.
