Assessment
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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Assessment Long a Testing Bastion, Florida Plans to End 'Outdated' Year-End ExamsFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state will shift to "progress monitoring" starting in the 2022-23 school year.Assessment Spotlight Spotlight on Assessment in 2021In this Spotlight, review newest assessment scores, see how districts will catch up with their supports for disabled students, plus more.
Assessment 'Nation's Report Card' Has a New Reading Framework, After a Drawn-Out Battle Over EquityThe new framework for the National Assessment of Educational Progress will guide development of the 2026 reading test.
Assessment Opinion Q&A Collections: AssessmentScores of educators share commentaries on the use of assessments in schools.
Assessment Standardized Tests Could Be in Jeopardy in Wake of Biden Decisions, Experts SayHas the Biden administration shored up statewide tests this year only to risk undermining long-term public backing for them?
Assessment How Can Teachers Better Understand Students? A New Breed of Assessment Will Try to HelpResearchers will work to create formative assessments that can give teachers a window into students’ emerging identities and strengths
Assessment Opinion It's Time We Begin Using Assessments to Look Forward, Instead of BackSchools do not get much value from high-stakes tests. Many are now allowing schools to use better assessments to guide student learning.
Assessment Opinion Grading Has Always Been an Imperfect Exercise. COVID-19 Made It WorseIt’s hard reducing the complexity of each student’s social, emotional, and academic learning to a letter grade. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.
Assessment Opinion What Federally Mandated State Tests Are Good For (And What They Aren’t)Spring 2021 testing is happening. That can be a good thing—if the goal is about more than school accountability.
Assessment Opinion The National Assessment Governing Board’s Troubling Gag OrderNAGB's recently released restrictions on how its board members can communicate set a troubling precedent.
Assessment Biden Administration's Level of Tolerance for Cutting Standardized Tests Comes Into FocusA distinction has grown between states having to make tests available, and districts deciding it's not practical to make students take them.
Assessment Opinion Alternatives to Standardized Tests During a Pandemic YearThree educators suggest alternatives to federally mandated standardized testing during this year undercut by COVID-19.
Assessment Opinion AP Exams Can't Be Business as Usual This YearThe College Board seems unconcerned with the collateral damage of its pandemic approach, writes an assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction.
Assessment Federal Lawmakers Urge Miguel Cardona to Let States Cancel Tests, Highlighting DiscordA letter from Democratic members to the new education secretary calls for an end to the "flawed" system of annual standardized exams.
Assessment How Two Years of Pandemic Disruption Could Shake Up the Debate Over Standardized TestingMoves to opt out of state tests and change how they're given threaten to reignite fights over high-stakes assessments.
