Sometimes we can’t use an assessment for its intended purpose because other elements of a teaching and learning strategy get in the way. For example, a teacher focused on a strict scope and sequence ...

It’s easy to test but hard to teach. The next chapter in Texas education policy must start with a bold but simple shift.

Teacher involvement in the design, use, and scoring of performance assessments has the potential to powerfully link instruction, assessment, student learning, and teacher professional development.

We hardly need more data—schools are awash with data. Instead, we need better interpretations of these data. When we built the New Zealand school assessment system 15 years ago, we started by ...

Link to Resource: Examining the Dual Purpose Use of Student Learning Objectives for Classroom Assessment and Teacher Evaluation Authors: Derek C. Briggs, Rajendra Chattergoon, and Amy Burkhardt ...

A new book by two education professors explores why assessment became so fraught and what we can do to restore its original purpose: helping students learn. In their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades ...

Lots of challenges have arisen in remote teaching and learning during COVID-19, and cheating on tests has been one of them. Guest blogger Tom Guskey explains how to prevent that from happening.

In online learning, assessment plays a key role in moving from low-end elearning to high-end elearning (Duus, 2009). ... Once we understand what we believe in as far as what our purpose as teachers is ...

Certification exams and learning or course assessments in IT have been around for many years. Each serves a very specific purpose, but with the proliferation of digital credentials, the line ...