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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 ACT Adds New, Free Test-Prep ServiceACT Inc.'s new free test-prep service arrives amid ever-increasing competition with its rival, the College Board, which offers free test prep of its own.
Assessment Opinion Speak, John, Speak: Feeling the Power of Exhibitions at the Workshop SchoolLike many progressive schools, the students at the Workshop School, a non-selective high school in the School District of Philadelphia, present their work at the conclusion of each quarter.Assessment Opinion 3 Ways Student-Led Assessment Improves Learning in VirginiaA group of 11 school districts across Virginia came together with one goal: create more student-led assessment opportunities in our schools so students are more engaged in learning.
Assessment Opinion No, Students Don't Need GradesIt’s time to reimagine a classroom where students are driven by curiosity rather than a score, writes educator and author Mark Barnes.
Assessment Opinion Our Quest to Personalize Competency-Based Learning in New HampshireNew Hampshire's Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) has been a quest to deepen and personalize competency-based learning for all students.Assessment Are the ACT or SAT Good Substitutes for State Tests? New Study Raises QuestionsA new study raises questions about how easily states can use the SAT or ACT instead of their required high school achievement tests.
Assessment Opinion Try a Simple Speaking Assessment to Close the SemesterAround the end of the semester, I like to use a simple speaking activity that accomplishes several things at once.
Assessment Opinion A Year in the Making: Lessons My New Year's Resolution Taught Me about Next Gen LearningWhat can you learn about next gen learning by taking a new creative class each month? The first takeaway Liza Veto of NGLC had was that Making provides a different kind of learning than most traditional schools offer.Assessment Opinion NAEP vs. PISA? Hands down, It's PISAPISA's collection of background data provides policymakers critical insights beyond just student performance. Marc Tucker makes the case that NAEP should collect similar information.
Assessment Opinion Mo'olelo: Building a Culturally Responsive Framework for AssessmentWe've produced a series of podcasts to share the voices of students, educators, and others who are reimagining assessment and experiencing assessment for learning. The first podcast, fittingly, profiles a project that grounds assessment in the Hawaiian practice of mo'olelo (storytelling) to build a culturally responsive framework for assessment.Assessment Report Roundup Report Roundup: English Language LearnersDesignating early-elementary students who are close to being proficient in English as English-language learners can have "significant and positive effects on [their] academic achievement," a new study concludes.
Assessment Opinion Real-World Learning at the Workshop SchoolFor this edition of Friday Focus: Practitioner's Guide to Next Gen Learning, we spoke to Matt Riggan, co-founder of the Workshop School in Philadelphia.Assessment Opinion What Does an International Assessment Tell Us About Collaborative Problem Solving?New results from an assessment of 15-year-olds from 57 nations provide some answers about how well students work with others to solve problems.
Assessment Opinion Teacher as Director: Four Questions to Promote Small Group CollaborationPoke your head into any school around the country and you are likely to see students working in small groups. Why do educators see small group collaboration as a model to facilitate learning?
Assessment What 150 Years of Education Statistics Say About Schools TodayEven before there was a federal education department, there was a federal education statistics agency. The National Center for Education Statistics turns 150 this year and a look at its studies over those years shows just how much American schooling has grown and changed.
