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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 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.
Assessment A Plan for Standardized Test Scores During the Pandemic Has Gotten States' AttentionA testing expert says his idea would provide helpful data with key context, but said other measures about student well-being are crucial.
Assessment Biden's Testing Stance Leaves States Tough Choices. Some May Still Try to Avoid ExamsWhether to give tests in person this spring or even test students next school year instead, education leaders confront a complex path.
Assessment States Still Must Give Standardized Tests This Year, Biden Administration AnnouncesBut the administration says it would allow states to give tests in the summer or use partial exams due to challenges related to COVID-19.
