Assessment
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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 What Happens When You Really Listen? Student Voices and Reshaping PolicyThe "If You Ask Me..." student-voice exhibit helps New Mexico educators and policymakers change the conversation and keep the needs of students at the center.Assessment Report Roundup Research Report: TeachersWhen teachers have higher cognitive skills, their students perform better academically, according to a new study in the journal Education Next using data from 31 countries.Assessment Report Roundup Arts EducationArts experiences can reduce disciplinary infractions, increase students' engagement, and improve writing skills, says a new study by the Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Assessment Opinion Leveraging Data to Understand Students: Obstacles and Ideas for Data PracticesStronger data practices can help leaders better utilize data as a way to deeply understand the students they serve.Assessment Letter to the Editor Where Is PISA Headed?To the Editor:
I wish to clarify certain points made in the exchange of views concerning the Program for International Student Assessment that was recently published in Education Week. I refer specifically to Michele Bruniges response ("Let's Embrace PISA's Success") to my concerns about how PISA was in danger of becoming a victim of its own success ("Is PISA a Victim of Its Own Success?").Assessment News in Brief N.H. Initiative Would Offer Students Credit for Out-of-Class LearningAn education initiative being pushed by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu would incentivize learning outside the classroom.Assessment An Educators' Glossary for Performance AssessmentShare our new video, which succinctly explains what these complex terms mean.
Assessment Video K-12 Performance Assessment Terms ExplainedInterest is growing in assessing students’ learning by having them show what they can do with what they know. But educators often disagree about what terms like performance assessment and project-based learning really mean in the classroom. In an effort to clear up some of the confusion, Education Week writers developed definitions for six performance-assessment related terms, including proficiency-based learning, project-based learning, standards-based grading, and portfolios. See the results in this animated glossary.Assessment Opinion Where Can Tech Outdo a Teacher?In tomorrow's classrooms, technology won't replace teachers—it will make them better. Here's how.Assessment Online Summit Testing for Real-World PerformanceEducation Week offers a big-picture look at the current state of performance assessment and pinpoints some best practices.Assessment News in Brief Roman Catholic Students Sue Vermont Over Dual-Enrollment LockoutA group of Vermont high school students backed by a powerful conservative Christian legal organization is accusing the state of religious discrimination.
Assessment News in Brief What's Up With AP?About 1.24 million students—or nearly 40 percent of the class of 2018—took at least one Advanced Placement exam in 2018, for a grand total of some 4.22 million tests.Assessment News in Brief High School Graduation Rate Reaches Another All-Time HighThe U.S. high school graduation rate has risen for yet another year, to a new all-time high.
Assessment Opinion Five Non-Negotiables in Assessment for LearningA successful performance-assessment system requires these five non-negotiable qualities.
Assessment Exploring Ways to Say So Long to Traditional Letter GradesSome teachers are ditching grades or using "no zero" policies to keep students more focused on learning and less intent on grade-grubbing.
