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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 Q&A How to Use Formative Assessment to Accelerate LearningAn assessment expert explains how the technique helps teachers find and address the holes in student learning.
Assessment Fighting Senioritis? This New Requirement Kept a Graduating Class EngagedThese seniors were the first to test a new state requirement to reflect on what they had learned over four years of high school.
Assessment The Feds Gave States the Chance to Create Better Standardized Tests. There Were Few TakersWhile many states were initially excited about the flexibility, they had second thoughts when they looked more closely at the details.
Assessment Q&A Putting Education Researchers and Teachers on Equal FootingThe new head of an "inclusive R&D" initiative discusses promises and challenges of asking educators and researchers to co-create solutions.Assessment Webinar Innovative Strategies for Data & AssessmentsSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Join our webinar to learn strategies for actionable instruction using assessment & analysis.Assessment Webinar Reimagining Grading in K-12 Schools: A Conversation on the Value of Standards-Based GradingSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Hear from K-12 educational leaders and explore standards-based grading benefits and implementation strategies and challengesAssessment Webinar Improving Outcomes on State Assessments with Data-Driven StrategiesSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.State testing is around the corner! Join us as we discuss how teachers can use formative data to drive improved outcomes on state assessments.
Assessment States Have Soured on the High School Exit Exam. Here's WhyThe pandemic is one reason, but interest has waned for some time in light of mixed research.
Assessment A Huge Publisher and a Big Testing Company Are Teaming Up. What This Means for EducatorsFour key questions to consider about how the pairing of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and NWEA might affect educators.Assessment Spotlight Spotlight on AssessmentThis Spotlight will help you examine updated testing guidance from the U.S. Dept. of Ed, analyze college-placement test scores, and more.
Assessment Opinion We Are More Than Our Grades: A Student's PerspectiveStudents have come to believe that their GPA and test scores are the ultimate reflection of their self-worth, writes a college senior.
Assessment Letter to the Editor Grading for Growth Through Competency-Based EducationCompetency-based education can better prepare today's children for tomorrow's challenges, writes this letter to the editor.
Assessment Opinion Rebooting Assessment and Accountability Post-Pandemic: What Now?The disruptions of the pandemic have made this an ideal time to rethink accountability and assessment.
Assessment Don’t Use State Tests ‘Punitively,’ Ed. Secretary Cardona WarnsAs federal accountability restarts after two years, guidance from the department underscores how complicated that could be.
Assessment Latest Round of Federal Grants Aims to Make States' Assessments More Equitable, PreciseThe U.S. Department of Education awarded over $29 million in competitive grants to 10 state education agencies.
