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 Video State Testing Standards: How States Stack UpAlmost 10 years have passed since the Common Core State Standards were developed to provide a single set of challenging academic expectations for all students. Along with these new learning standards, came new assessments. Most states adopted one of two federally funded state tests, though some have dropped them and others have developed their own. Do states now have more challenging assessments that reflect higher learning standards? A new report compares the benchmarks and cut scores for each state test against a national assessment.Assessment Report Roundup Student MotivationThe historic "marshmallow test" has tied young children's ability to delay gratification to their long-term success, but a new, larger replication study in Psychological Science puts those long-term results in doubt.
Assessment Opinion What Do Test Scores Really Mean for the Economy?When it comes to stagnant math and reading scores, we can’t afford to put our heads in the sand, writes Eric A. Hanushek.
Assessment Opinion Want to Differentiate Instruction? Use Your Time WiselyTo improve instruction, teachers should work together to figure out smarter ways of using their time, says coach Lisa Westman.
Assessment Which States Expect the Most or Least From Students?Mostly, states are holding to a higher bar for student achievement than they did a decade ago. But Iowa, Texas, and Virginia continue to show large gaps between their state proficiency standards and NAEP's.Assessment Online State Testing in 2018: Mostly Smooth, With One Glaring ExceptionFor the second time in three years, Tennessee experienced major online testing disruptions, prompting new state legislation and raising questions about ESSA compliance.Assessment Report Roundup Online TestingAsking students and schools to switch from paper-and-pencil to online assessments does affect students' performance, but problems might be more short-lived than some educators fear, finds a study by the American Institutes of Research.Assessment Report Roundup Job StressMost teachers experience high levels of burnout and stress—and those conditions may be affecting their students' achievement, a recent study says.Assessment News in Brief No Data, No Honor: Only Nine States Eligible for AwardA not-so-funny thing happened on the way to creating a new award to honor high schools that do a good job preparing students for college: It became nearly impossible.Assessment Grieving Parkland Community Asks For More Standardized-Testing FlexibilityGov. Rick Scott says the legislature must approve any additional waivers—and it doesn't meet again for months.
Assessment Pitfalls and Progress in Moving from Paper- to Computer-Based TestingMassachusetts has been part of the transition from print to online in several state, national, and international tests. A new study looks at how moving from print to computer-based testing affected its students in the first few years.Assessment Opinion Measuring Competencies that Count: Using High-Quality Systems of AssessmentDespite the challenges, states and districts need to develop high-quality systems of assessment to ensure students have the skills they need in a changing economy.
Assessment Low Scorers Losing Ground on NAEPAs achievement continues to flatten on NAEP, the gap is widening between the lowest and highest scorers on the nationally representative reading and math tests.
Assessment Video Deep Dive Discussion: Assessment and TestingIn this half-hour discussion, Education Week veteran reporter Catherine Gewertz facilitates a conversation with school and district-level leaders around testing. Among the issues tackled: the pressure to reduce testing, federal accountability around testing, and alignment. Catherine Gewertz is a reporter covering assessment and pathways from the middle grades to high school and beyond. Since joining Education Week in 1999, she has been the lead common-core reporter and has covered urban schools.
Assessment Opinion What NAEP Scores Aren't Telling UsIt's time to elevate family structure as an influential factor in academic success, argues Fordham Institute fellow Ian Rowe.
