Assessment Must Follow Curriculum and Instruction
We talk a lot about—and aim for—balanced assessment systems. But we’re still not paying enough attention to the instructional core.
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Teaching & 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.
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Ethical Thinking as a 21st Century Skill
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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Assessment Guidance for Portraits of Learners
An exploration of key considerations, and a framework, for exhibitions of learning.
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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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Consider Backward Assessment Design
If an assessment is meant to help teachers get insight into student learning and adjust their instruction, test designers must start with the end in mind.
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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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Can We Stop Obsessing About the Effects of Remote Instruction on Student Learning?
Let’s start talking about student learning recovery and stop focusing on the impact of remote instruction during the pandemic.
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Let’s Not Repeat the Past Mistakes in K-12 Reading Instruction and Assessment
There is a science behind reading instruction that must be followed to ensure reading comprehension goes beyond just the foundational skills.
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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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In Search of the “Just Right” Connection Between Curriculum and Assessment
Considering Options Between Curriculum-Specific and Curriculum-Agnostic State Assessment State summative assessments are intentionally designed to be curriculum-agnostic. The design of these state assessments ignores the various instructional materials and other […]
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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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Using Assessment to Support Learning Acceleration: It Takes a System!
A First-Hand Account of Responding to Student Needs With Learning Acceleration The Oklahoma State Department of Education’s (OSDE) highest priority is keeping students and staff safe so that we can […]
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Enhancing the Impact of Performance Assessments on Instruction
A Research-Based Framework Monitoring the Use of Performance Assessments to Promote Positive Instructional Change This is the fourth post by one of our 2021 summer interns based on their project and the […]
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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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Shared Responsibility for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education
A call for systemic change in standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessment that can mitigate hatred and discrimination.
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