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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If I Ruled the World…
An appeal to State Department leaders to increase formative assessment practices in classrooms to help with pandemic recovery.
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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 proc…
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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 recei…
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Part 1: A Deep Dive into Formative Assessment in a Remote or Hybrid Learning Environment
What’s the Same and What’s Different about Classroom Assessment in 2020-2021? As school restarts this fall, many teachers and students are facing different learning environments than the typical b…
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Stop Searching for the Holy Grail: Responding to COVID-19 Achievement Gaps
How Educators Should Address Achievement Gaps Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic Since school closures and remote learning became the norm, I have received emails from school and district leaders re…
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Five Essential Features of Assessment for Learning
A Look at Fulfilling Hopes for Innovative Assessments and Instructional Utility It may sound innovative to claim that commercial interim assessments support instruction, but simply saying it doesn’t…
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Data in Schools–Understanding What it is, How it’s Used, and How We Can Improve
An Assessment of the Primary Challenges of Using Data in Educational Decision-Making Discussions of data use in schools often lead to two commonly heard refrains: “Educators are drowning in a…
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Assessment Flexibility for States under ESSA
Highlights from New Hampshire’s Innovative Assessment Application New Hampshire was one of three U.S.
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