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 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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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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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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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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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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Highlights from New Hampshire’s Innovative Assessment Application New Hampshire was one of three U.S.
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