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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 Maryland Will Be the Next State to Drop the PARCC Common-Core TestMaryland, one of the few remaining states to administer the full PARCC exam, will create its own test after the 2018-19 school year.
Assessment Opinion Assessment for Deeper Learning: Reclaiming the Power of AssessmentWe as educators need to reclaim assessment. Specifically, we need to do a better job of answering the following three essential questions so that everyone understands the vital role that assessment plays in learning and teaching.
Assessment Opinion Students Aren't Lab Rats. Stop Treating Them Like They AreIt’s been decades since academic psychology took behaviorism seriously, so why is education stuck in the past? asks Alfie Kohn.Assessment Report Roundup Test-TakingWorldwide, a high percentage of students either skip questions, spend insufficient time answering them, or quit early when taking the Program for International Student Assessment test.Assessment Opinion Moving from Passive to Active Learning: Four Ways to Overcome Student ResistanceWhen we ask our students to adapt to a more complex, self-directed, self-regulated approach, we're often going against their very beliefs about how people learn. Here are four solutions to the most significant barriers to active learning.
Assessment Opinion We All Need to Get Smarter About TestingWhat is “assessment literacy,” and why should we all care about it? Testing expert W. James Popham explains.Assessment Letter to the Editor Don't Track AlgebraTo the Editor:
As the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, I applaud the de-tracking efforts of San Francisco Unified School District in middle school math, which creates pathways for all students to have access to continued studies in the subject ("In San Francisco, A Bold Effort to De-Track Algebra," June 13, 2018). The article indicates that students who are traditionally underserved in math are showing improvement in achievement and increased enrollment in advanced studies in the subject without negative impacts on other students.Assessment Report Roundup Education AttainmentA massive new research analysis finds that formal education, in general, remains "the most consistent, robust, and durable method yet to be identified for raising intelligence."Assessment Report Roundup Private SchoolsAs the debate on school-choice continues, a study published by the American Educational Research Association finds that although children with a history of private school enrollment perform better overall, when sociodemographic characteristics are weighed, there are no advantages of a private school
Assessment Opinion How Does a Feedback Loop Encourage a Culture of Learning Conversation in the Classroom?Based on our conversations with teachers, here are some key takeaways in creating a culture of conversation around feedback.Assessment Opinion Creating SpaceIf we want good things to happen in K-12 education, we have to create space for them. And creating space isn't easy.
Assessment Opinion Successfully Ever After: Building 21's Broader CompetenciesMany schools and organizations in the NGLC network are considering the full scope of their students' futures--lifelong learning, multiple careers, relationships, and civic engagement--in their definitions of student success. Correspondingly, they're adopting more expansive sets of competencies so that their graduates can succeed and thrive in a world of accelerating change.Assessment Opinion Vigorous Learning at Chipeta Elementary SchoolChipeta Elementary is a school on a journey of change. The concept of rigor vs. vigor brings clarity to our purpose and our ensuing actions.Assessment Opinion When Learners Get "Stuck," Try Thinking Like An ArtistThis post is by Jacob Watson, a theatre artist and educator from Chicago, IL, and a recent graduate of the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationAssessment Report Roundup School FacilitiesStudents who learn in hotter classrooms perform worse on college-admissions tests, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Researchers tracked 10 million high school students who took the PSAT multiple years between 2001 and 2014.
