Assessment
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Student Testing
This special report examines change in the field of student testing, including a look at next-generation science assessments, new ways to curb test anxiety, and college-admissions exams.
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Understanding Formative Assessment
This special report aims to deepen educators' understanding about formative assessment, what it is, and how to use it effectively to get good information about students' learning progress in real time.
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New Directions in Assessment
Addressing an area of both frustration and possibility for many teachers, this online story package explores new developments and trends in the practice of testing and assessment in schools. The stories focus on initiatives designed to link assessment more closely with classroom learning and instruction and thus provide integral solutions for teachers.
- 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.
Special Report Projects, Portfolios, and Performance AssessmentsAlternatives 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 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.
Assessment How to Assess Group Projects: It's About Content and TeamworkGroup projects founder when students don't work well together. Here's the latest thinking on evaluating students on both content mastery and collaboration skills.
Assessment What Is Performance Assessment?Here's a handy glossary on terms like project-based learning, competency-based learning, and standards-based grading.Assessment Three Teachers, One Test Question: Will Their Responses Differ?Education Week asked three 8th grade teachers to evaluate real student responses to an open-ended question on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in social studies. Here's what they said.
Assessment Scores Were Lower When Mass. Students Took PARCC Exams on Computers, Study FindsUnfamiliarity with technology contributed to lower scores for online test-takers in 2015, but the effects diminished over time, researchers found.Assessment Opinion Feedback Loops Lead the Way to MasteryElementary students and their teacher reflect on getting feedback from experts, in support of growing as a learner.
Assessment Video Experience Education Week’s Summit on “Testing for Real-World Performance”Assistant Managing Editor Debra Viadero talks about the latest turn in education toward performance-based assessment and invites educators to the “Testing for Real-World Performance” summit on Tuesday, February 19, at 1 p.m. In this online event, Education Week journalists and guests will staff online “discussion rooms” on a host of topics, including: the problems and pitfalls of performance-based testing measures, ways to assess group work, alternatives to traditional grades, how some college admissions offices weigh performance-based measures, and video game-based formative assessments for elementary schools. You will get a unique opportunity to interact directly with the writers and experts who helped shape coverage of our new special report on performance assessment. After the discussions, watch writers and editors sum up the discussion in a series of livestreamed interviews.
Assessment Opinion What Traditional Classroom Grading Gets WrongIt's time to make grades bias-resistant and fairer, writes Joe Feldman. Four key aspects of equitable grading can help.Assessment Opinion Beyond Classroom ManagementWant a class that functions smoothly and productively? Forget the carrots and sticks; make sure each student has appropriately challenging work instead.Assessment Report Roundup Grade RetentionThe United States spends $20 billion each year when some 2 million students repeat a grade, and a new study in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness suggests doing so may not help academically.Assessment Big Things You Need to Know Now About the PARCC and Smarter Balanced TestsA lot has changed with the PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests since they were first launched in 2015. Here's what you need to know to stay current.Assessment New Setback for PARCC as Another State Abandons TestNew Mexico’s defection from the PARCC test set off another round of speculation that the exam will become extinct, but PARCC’s overseers have other plans.
