Instructing & Assessing 21st Century Skills: A Focus on Analytical Thinking
Guidance on defining and assessing analytical thinking, a skill that’s increasingly important to students’ future success.
Read MoreGuidance on defining and assessing analytical thinking, a skill that’s increasingly important to students’ future success.
Read MoreEducation leaders and vendors claim that many assessments are “instructionally useful.” Such claims must be highly specific, and supported by evidence.
Read MoreWhich kinds of tests provide information that helps teachers adjust their instruction? We outline 10 key features of instructionally useful assessments
Read MoreLike other 21st century skills, ethical thinking presents substantial challenges to educators who want to define, teach, and assess it.
Read MoreGuidance on defining and assessing creative thinking, a skill that’s increasingly in demand among employers.
Read MoreIn this TikTok era, we break teachers’ learning into bite-sized pieces and expect them to learn on their own. But we accept this model at our peril.
Read MoreThe pressure of external tests can lead teachers to use formative assessment as test preparation. Here’s how to protect this important classroom practice.
Read MoreAs she takes a new job at the Center, with new challenges to explore, an expert finds herself in the unsettling and exciting role of learner.
Read MoreTeaching students to analyze complex text is crucial in the age of misinformation. Our comprehensive new toolkit on text dependent analysis can help.
Read MoreThere are striking disconnects in our work that can affect the impact our field can have on K-12 learning, educational measurement, and accountability.
Read MoreIt’s time to focus on the role of formative and large-scale assessment in student learning recovery efforts.
Read MoreFormative assessment implementation can be both impeded and facilitated, and we take a look at the factors that play into each outcome.
Read MoreA blog post from one of our interns presents a framework for improving classroom assessment practices.
Read MoreAn appeal to State Department leaders to increase formative assessment practices in classrooms to help with pandemic recovery.
Read MoreWe’re offering 23 professional classroom assessment learning modules, an expansion of 7 modules offered at the beginning of the pandemic.
Read MoreUsing a state test to inform instruction is possible, but has limitations that educators and other stakeholders need to understand.
Read MoreOne in a series exploring research and best practices on defining, teaching and assessing 21st century skills.
Read MoreMaking Teachers Active Agents in Improving Assessment Literacy Most of us would agree that if the problem of improving K-12 educator assessment literacy has not been solved, it is not […]
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