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 For Black Students, Having a Black Teacher Can Be a Benefit, Study FindsResearch shows improvement for black and low-performing students in reading and math when matched with a teacher of color.Assessment Report Roundup Summer SchoolMany districts target summer school only for students at risk of repeating a grade, but a new Rand Corp. evaluation suggests students who consistently attend high-quality summer programs outperform peers in math, English, and social-emotional skills.Assessment Report Roundup Physical EducationLess than 3 percent of students who started 9th grade in 2009 had dropped out by 2012, new data from the National Center for Education Statistics show, but more than 11 percent had switched schools.Assessment Report Roundup Foster Students in SchoolsSchools may be the only lifeline for many teenagers leaving foster care before graduating from high school.Assessment Report Roundup Achievement and RaceIf a black student has just one or two black teachers in elementary school, he or she is significantly more likely to enroll in college, concludes a new Johns Hopkins University study.Assessment Is 'Proficient' Insufficient? A New Wrinkle in the Debate Over NAEP Achievement LevelsA modification to the Nation's Report Card achievement level descriptions of "basic," "proficient," and "advanced" performance is the latest in a nearly 30-year battle over where to set the bar for student performance.Assessment Report Roundup Selective SchoolsSelective schools with a higher average achievement level may exert a negative influence on students' long-term success, finds a new longitudinal study of data from Project TALENT.Assessment Opinion Building Writing Skills, Fostering Agency: The National Writing Project's Student Using Sources ToolTeachers helped the National Writing Project develop and test a peer-review tool designed to help students improve their evidence-based arguments in writing.Assessment Opinion What Is a Good School?The quality of a school is evident in student work and how it is assessed, says Justin Wells of Envision Learning Partners.Assessment News in Brief Four More States Express Interest in ESSA Innovative Assessment PilotFour states say they will apply for the second round of the Every Student Succeeds Act's Innovative Assessment pilot: Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, and South Carolina.Assessment Report Roundup Science EducationSchool systems across the country should do more to ensure that current and former English-language learners have access to STEM education, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds.Assessment Math Scores Slide to a 20-Year Low on ACTThe continuing decline in math achievement comes even as fewer students are taking the college-readiness exam.
Assessment What Happens When States Un-Standardize Tests?Many forge their own path on assessments that steer clear of traditional fill-in-the-bubble tests, but few have signed up for a much-touted ESSA pilot program.
Assessment Opinion Co-Designing Learning WITH Students: A Snapshot at Souhegan High SchoolStudents, a teacher, and administrators at Souhegan High School in New Hampshire share their perspectives on redesigning a research paper into a student-driven learning project.
Assessment Prison Time Begins for Atlanta Educators Convicted in Cheating ScandalTamara Cotman and Angela Williamson, former Atlanta educators convicted in the district's test cheating scandal in 2015, began their prison sentences this week after exhausting all their appeals.
