Ethical Thinking as a 21st Century Skill Â
Like other 21st century skills, ethical thinking presents substantial challenges to educators who want to define, teach, and assess it.
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Assessing Students’ Creative Thinking
Guidance on defining and assessing creative thinking, a skill that’s increasingly in demand among employers.
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A Flawed Approach to Supporting Teacher Learning: ‘Cruel Optimism’
In 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.
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Building Professional Learning CommunitiesÂ
How my bicycle paceline taught me the seven things teachers need most in their professional learning communities.
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How to Choose Local Assessments
Choosing local assessments can be tricky. A new guide walks district leaders through the questions they should ask and the evidence they should request.
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What’s in a Name? The Challenge of Testing TerminologyÂ
We use a lot of assessment names—formative, interim, benchmark—without agreeing on their meaning and use. The cost? Public understanding and student learning.
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Diagnostic Measurement for K-12 Education
André Rupp provides answers to frequently asked questions about four aspects of diagnostic classification models in K-12 education.
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Understanding Root Causes of Misalignment Between Results from Different Assessments
Policymakers and educators should have guidance to make sense of why different assessments can yield such different results.
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Reorienting Conversations about Assessment Literacy Through a Digital Lens
Discussing how digital tools, when implemented correctly, can help educators and school officials make informed decisions about how to support student learning.
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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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Watch Your Language!
Clear communication is a requirement of effective assessment design and use, but outside factors can often muddy the waters and cause confusion.
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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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Boosting the Signal Through the Noise
Learnings from our Colloquium: effective communication about educational assessment and accountability in a time of confusion and mistrust.
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Selecting the Right Assessments to Monitor School Recovery from the PandemicÂ
Your assessment selection can ensure you can monitor recovery efforts and confirm evidence of learning progress following the pandemic.
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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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