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Student Testing
This special report examines change in the field of student testing, including a look at next-generation science assessments, new ways to curb test anxiety, and college-admissions exams.
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Understanding Formative Assessment
This special report aims to deepen educators' understanding about formative assessment, what it is, and how to use it effectively to get good information about students' learning progress in real time.
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New Directions in Assessment
Addressing an area of both frustration and possibility for many teachers, this online story package explores new developments and trends in the practice of testing and assessment in schools. The stories focus on initiatives designed to link assessment more closely with classroom learning and instruction and thus provide integral solutions for teachers.
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.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.
