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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 The State Testing Landscape Continues to FragmentTwenty-three states' testing contracts expire this year, probably leading to more change in providers and tests, a new report says.Assessment Opinion Portfolio Assessment: Virtues, Vices, and ExamplesPortfolios can be powerful forms of assessment, but they must be done right to reap their benefits.Assessment Opinion It's High Time for Change in our Accountability SystemsCan a burgeoning movement from the field place pressure upon local, state, and federal policymakers to create accountability systems where teachers are at the forefront of creating assessments that promote the deeper learning we want for all our children?Assessment Report Roundup International BenchmarksA new report by the World Bank puts the results of much-publicized international tests–which many poor nations do not take part in–on a comparable scale as regional exams commonly used by developing countries.Assessment Arizona Approves a 'Menu' of Test Options, But Feds Are ConcernedArizona has approved a new approach to testing that allows districts to choose among several high school tests. But the new system could violate federal education law.Assessment Illinois Will Step Back from PARCC Test. Is New Jersey Next?Only a handful of states will still be offering the test in its entirety after this spring's testing season.
Assessment GED Passing Rates Rise, But Fewer Students Take Exam After RedesignPassing rates on the GED have bounced back to normal levels, four years after a major redesign of the equivalency exam caused a sharp drop.Assessment Good Tests Must Include Student Work, Groups ArgueA new vision for good assessment systems urges states to adopt approaches that include classroom work or performance tasks that provide meaningful gauges of student learning.
Assessment Opinion The Teacher's Role in Personalized Learning: Making Math RelevantAt New Classrooms, Carolyn Harper supports teachers in their journey to connect math to real life for their students. In Teach to One: Math, performance-based tasks help students understand how math exists in their world.
Assessment Smarter Balanced Test Scores Are Mostly Flat. Is That a Problem?A few critics say it could be a sign of problems with the test; Smarter Balanced officials say detailed analyses are coming.
Assessment Opinion Students as Innovators and Co-Creators at Del Lago AcademyIn this edition of Friday Focus: Practitioner's Guide to Next Gen Learning, we tell the story of badging at Del Lago Academy, a member of the NGLC and Center for Innovation in Education Assessment for Learning Project community.
Assessment Opinion Hidden Labels Hold Students BackHere are five questions school and district leaders should be asking to move beyond tracking, write Robin Avelar La Salle and Ruth S. Johnson.
Assessment Opinion Are We Collaborating Too Much?It is perhaps obvious that the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) places a premium on collaboration. Here are some things we have learned about collaboration working with the Assessment for Learning Project's community of practice.Assessment Opinion The U.S. Education System is Very Inefficient: Fact or Fiction?Marc Tucker responds to critics of the comparative method of research and details the value that it brings to public policy analysis.Assessment Opinion Building a High-Quality System of Assessments to Advance Deeper LearningJobs for the Future is about to unveil principles for comprehensive assessment systems that maximize efficiency, reduce duplication, and provide rich data.
