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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 Opinion An American Teenager's Perspective on the World's Hardest TestWhat is it like to take the world's hardest test?Assessment Everybody Loves the Nation's Report Card. But How Should It Evolve?Board members are grappling with whether the main exams still need be administered every two years, and the relevance of a test measuring long-term educational trends.Assessment Opinion Funding Student Success: How to Fund Personalized, Competency-Based LearningStates have several options in revising funding systems to support competency-based, personalized learning, says Jennifer Poon of the Center for Innovation in Education.Assessment Fla. Supreme Court Won't Hear 'Opt Out' CaseThe case sought to loosen Florida's mandate that 3rd graders pass a standardized reading exam to be promoted.Assessment Opinion The Greatest Challenge to Scaling Competency-Based LearningWhat is the greatest challenge to competency-based learning scaling across America? It's not seat time mandates.Assessment Career-Tech-Ed Students Can Skip Exit Exams in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania has a new law that allows career and technical education students to skip the state's high school exit exams.
Assessment Pearson Testing Mistakes Allow 10 Students to Get High School DiplomasA scoring mistake by Pearson allowed 10 Mississippi students to graduate from high school, and the state says it won't revoke those diplomas.Assessment Letter to the Editor Test Scores Are Not a Priority for School-Choice ParentsTo the Editor:
Test scores are at the center of fierce battles between pro- and anti-school-choice forces. However, Walt Gardner made a great point in his blog post, as made clear in the post's headline, "Choice Is Not Based on Performance Alone" (May 29, 2017).Assessment News in Brief Controversial Charter Network in N.Y.C. Wins Broad PrizeSuccess Academy, New York City's booming—and at times controversial—network of charter schools, has been awarded the charter sector's most prestigious prize.Assessment News in Brief Illinois Is Years Behind in Scoring Science ExamsThree years after Illinois made a bold change in how science would be taught and tested, little is known about how students have performed because neither schools nor families have seen state science-exam scores since 2013-14.Assessment Colorado to Downsize PARCC TestingColorado will no longer administer the full PARCC exam to students.Assessment Opinion Reading and Math Scores: 'Handle With Care'Test score gains tell us something useful. But, until we get more insight into what's causing them, they should be stamped "Handle with care."Assessment Still Facing Exam Pushback, New York State Moves to Cut Testing DaysNew York will cut from three to two the number of testing days for elementary and middle school students.Assessment Report Roundup Student DataThe wealth of student data generated today can help educators learn about student thinking and effective teaching in ways "that were unimagined just a decade ago," but also can create deep concerns about student privacy and the proper use of data, a report by the National Academy of Education says.Assessment Report Roundup Study SkillsWhat's the best way to study for a big test? Take more tests, finds a new meta-analysis in the journal Review of Educational Research.
