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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 From Our Research Center What Educators Have to Say About Competency-Based EducationTeachers, principals, and district leaders shared skepticism and optimism for the learning model.Assessment Webinar Unlocking the Full Power of Fall MAP Growth DataSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Maximize NWEA MAP Growth data this fall! Join our webinar to discover strategies for driving student growth and improving instruction.
Assessment From Our Research Center It's Hard to Shift to Competency-Based Learning. These Strategies Can HelpEducators are interested in the model and supportive of some of its key components, even if largely unfamiliar with the practice.
Assessment Explainer What Is Standards-Based Grading, and How Does It Work?Schools can retool to make instruction more personalized and student-centered. But grading is a common sticking point.
Assessment Letter to the Editor Are Advanced Placement Exams Becoming Easier?A letter to the editor reflects on changes to the College Board's Advanced Placement exams over the years.
Assessment Opinion ‘Fail Fast, Fail Often’: What a Tech-Bro Mantra Can Teach Us About GradingI was tied to traditional grading practices—until I realized they didn’t reflect what I wanted students to learn: the power of failure.
Assessment See How AP Exam Scores Have Changed Over TimeThe College Board adopted a new methodology for scoring AP exams which has resulted in higher passing rates.
Assessment Here’s Why More Students Have Passed AP Exams in Recent YearsIt isn't that the exams became easier, according to the College Board.
Assessment How a District Used the Biliteracy Seal to Expand Language InstructionThe St. Paul public schools in Minnesota has seen success in its Karen language program.
Assessment Video How a State Seal of Biliteracy Inspired This District to Teach a New LanguageMinnesota's seal of biliteracy program has resulted in one district creating a Karen language program and assessment.
Assessment Should Teachers Be Tough Graders? Here's What They Have to SayTeachers on social media give their opinions on whether stricter grading helps their students learn more.
Assessment The State of Teaching, 2024 Edition Where Teachers Say the Pressure to Change Grades Comes FromTeachers are more likely to be pressured by parents than school leaders.Assessment Webinar Standards-Based Grading Roundtable: What We've Achieved and Where We're HeadedSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Assessment Sponsor Testing Season: Who Are We Really Testing For? Transforming Assessments from Obstacles to OpportunitiesSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.As another testing season approaches, a familiar question weighs heavily on our minds: who are these tests serving?
Assessment What the Research Says What Teachers Should Know About Integrating Formative Assessment With InstructionTeachers need to understand how tests fit into their larger instructional practice, experts say.
