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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 Ed. Dept. Policing ESSA Rules on Portfolio Assessments for Students With DisabilitiesThe Every Student Succeeds Act says that portfolios, or collections of student work, can only be part of how a student is assessed for accountability purposes.Assessment Opinion Three Reflections on the NAEP 2017 TalkfestNAEP often gets treated as a talisman to be lovingly deciphered, rather than as a valuable but potentially volatile resource that should be handled accordingly.Assessment Scores Stagnant For Students With Disabilities on 'Nation's Report Card'Students with disabilities showed gains in just one area on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, making little change in a persistent score gap compared with students without disabilities.
Assessment The Nation's Report Card Is Due. Here's What We'll Learn And What We Definitely Won'tWith the scores for America's 4th and 8th graders not out until Tuesday, a variety of education watchers are already trying to decide what to think of the results. Here's a quick rundown of the most interesting indicators to watch, and misconceptions to avoid.Assessment Opinion Achieving Authentic Learning Through a Major Classroom Culture ShiftOne D.C. teacher designed and implemented a tech-driven blended learning model for his class--one that's self-paced and constructs a mastery-based approach to learning. lt has produced a highly personalized learning experience for his students, among other promising results.
Assessment With More Kids Skipping Tests, Minnesota Officials Fret Over School Accountability ImplicationsCould Minnesota's new plan for calculating standardized test scores negatively impact state funding for low-performing schools?
Assessment What's Wrong With the Common-Core Tests? Maybe Nothing, Analysis SaysThe Smarter Balanced group rejects the argument that its test was technically flawed in 2016-17, and produces new data to back its case.Assessment Opinion The Power and Promise of Performance AssessmentsPerformance assessments have the power to improve teaching and learning, and hold promise for helping schools and colleges better develop and assess students' college and career readiness.
Assessment Opinion Why I Give Students Only One Chance on TestsAllowing students to retake tests puts the emphasis on learning content rather than building useful life skills, writes Baptiste Delvallé.
Assessment Opinion Retakes Do Not Promote Laziness. They Exemplify CompassionDo teachers owe students second and third chances on final tests?Assessment N.D. Districts Can Substitute ACT for State TestThe first-of-its-kind move stems from a new kind of testing flexibility in the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Assessment Opinion Parkland Shooting: What Can We Learn from Abroad?The Honorable Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia, shares how his country enacted gun-safety measures.Assessment Opinion Innovative Assessments: Widening the HorizonStates are developing new forms of assessment, including assessments of learning and assessments for learning.Assessment Report Roundup State AssessmentsAfter a period of convergence, the K-12 testing landscape is again looking more and more fragmented, concludes a report from the consulting group Education First.Assessment News in Brief Atlanta's Program for Students Affected by Scandal Reveals Mixed ResultsThe Atlanta school district has spent about $7.5 million so far to provide services to students whose test answers were likely changed by educators during the districtwide cheating scandal that made national headlines. But a recent evaluation of the program's first few semesters shows mixed results.
