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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 In Case You Missed It: How Schools Are Measuring Student SuccessExplore stories about grading practices, what truly reflects student achievement, and more.Assessment Quiz Quiz Yourself: How Much Do You Know About Standardized Testing & Improving Student Outcomes?Answer 7 questions about improving standardized testing and student outcomes.
Assessment Fewer Subjects, Students, Data Points: Feds to Scale Back NAEPSome 4th and 12th grade tests won't proceed as planned, following sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Education research arm last month.
Assessment Download A Guide to Equitable Grading in Schools (DOWNLOADABLE)See how traditional and equitable grading practices differ in this downloadable guide.
Assessment What Should Teachers Do When Students—or Parents—Ask for a Better Grade?Plenty of students, and even parents, ask teachers to change their grades. Here's how teachers react.
Assessment Interactive How Teachers Approach Grading, in ChartsTeachers weigh multiple factors, including subjective perceptions, when selecting grades, beyond just assignments and test scores.
Assessment Why Some Schools Are Ditching Class Rank and Weighted GPAsEducators wonder whether it is time to revisit class rank and weighted GPAs.
Assessment Grading for Equity: Inside One District’s Big Policy ShiftDistricts have been shifting grading to strictly assess student learning without add-ons such as extra credit.
Assessment What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common AnswersDiffering opinions about the purpose of grades are at the heart of the grading debate.
Assessment Download A Strengths-Based Guide to Assessing Student Progress (DOWNLOADABLE)Help students succeed with clearer, fairer rubrics that simplify grading and improve assessment consistency.
Assessment What Might Happen to State Testing Under the Trump Administration?It's not clear what states might do with more flexibility—but here are three concerns they'll need to wrestle with.Assessment Webinar 3 Key Strategies for Prepping for State Tests & Building Long-Term Formative PracticesSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Boost state test success with data-driven strategies. Join our webinar for actionable steps, collaboration tips & funding insights.
Assessment Letter to the Editor NAEP Is a School Accountability EssentialThe Trump administration must preserve the exams.
Assessment Trump Admin. Abruptly Cancels National Exam for High SchoolersThe cancellation raised concerns that federal spending cuts will affect long-term data used to measure educational progress.
Assessment From Our Research Center Do State Tests Accurately Measure What Students Need to Know?Some educators argue that state tests don't do much more than evaluate students' ability to perform under pressure.
