How Test Prep Works Against the Spirit of Formative Assessment
The pressure of external tests can lead teachers to use formative assessment as test preparation. Here’s how to protect this important classroom practice.
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A Formative Assessment Journey
As 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.
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What is Text Dependent Analysis?
Teaching students to analyze complex text is crucial in the age of misinformation. Our comprehensive new toolkit on text dependent analysis can help.
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Tension Between Educational Measurement and K-12 Assessment
There are striking disconnects in our work that can affect the impact our field can have on K-12 learning, educational measurement, and accountability.
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Using Formative and Large-Scale Assessment as Part of a Comprehensive Recovery System
It’s time to focus on the role of formative and large-scale assessment in student learning recovery efforts.
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Supporting the Implementation of Formative Assessment
Formative assessment implementation can be both impeded and facilitated, and we take a look at the factors that play into each outcome.
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A Guiding Framework to Improve Classroom Assessment Practices
A blog post from one of our interns presents a framework for improving classroom assessment practices.
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If I Ruled the World…Â
An appeal to State Department leaders to increase formative assessment practices in classrooms to help with pandemic recovery.
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Classroom Assessment Learning Modules 2.0
We’re offering 23 professional classroom assessment learning modules, an expansion of 7 modules offered at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Can a State Test Inform Instruction?
Using a state test to inform instruction is possible, but has limitations that educators and other stakeholders need to understand.
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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills: A Focus on Creativity
One in a series exploring research and best practices on defining, teaching and assessing 21st century skills.
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Why Have Many (All?) Approaches to Improve K-12 Educator Assessment Literacy Failed to Produce Significant Changes in Teacher Practices at Scale?
Making 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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A Culturally Responsive Classroom Assessment Framework
Guidance for the design and evaluation of classroom formative and summative assessments.
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What Leads to Positive Changes in Student Learning?
The Relationships Between Instructional Practices and the Instructional Core Regarding Student Learning This is the third post by one of our 2021 summer interns based on their project and the assessment and […]
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Supporting Teacher Assessment Literacy Through Pre-service Education and the Early Years of Teaching
Challenges and Approaches to Guide New Teachers in the Wake of COVID-19 School Disruptions This fall, a batch of fresh new teachers, eager and anxious to start their careers, will […]
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Classroom Assessment Literacy Is Needed Now More Than Ever
Leveraging a Formative Assessment Approach to Inform Student Learning Progress and Teaching Practices in a Post-Pandemic Education Environment The pandemic has surfaced disparities among students with respect to equitable educational […]
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Practical Advice for Adapting Formative Assessment Practices to Remote Learning Contexts
Combining Good Pedagogy and Technology to Conduct Assessment Informs Future Instruction In a previous post, we discussed what is the same and what is different about the formative assessment process in […]
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What’s Wrong With School Grading This Year? The Same Things That Are Wrong Every Year
What We Can Learn About Both Student Engagement and Grading Systems from Current Failure Rates EducationWeek recently printed a terrific summary by Stephen Sawchuk about the number of students receiving failing grades […]
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