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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 More Students to Take SAT OnlineThe College Board will allow more students to take the college entrance exam on a computer, but the digital format is still available only to a small fraction of all test-takers.Assessment Two Atlanta Educators Convicted in Test-Cheating Scandal Lose AppealsFormer Atlanta educators Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson appealed their convictions on racketeering charges in connection to the widespread cheating scandal in Atlanta Public Schools to the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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.
