There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

The following is a guest post by Woody Dillaha and Jeanette Haren. In recent years, there has been a shift from a focus on summative assessment data, such as state test scores, to formative assessment ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? As I said in a previous popular Classroom Q & A post, Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process, ...

IO Education and Educator’s Assessment Data Management System (EADMS), a provider of K-12 assessment and data management software, have merged to better leverage online formative assessment ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Classroom assessments represented a nearly $1.6 billion market in 2017, and that market is expected to grow by 30 percent through 2020. In fact, classroom assessment now makes up a majority of the ...

“All they do is force us to test, test, test – why don’t they just let us teach?”This has become a typical battle cry among teachers across the country since No Child Left Behind was passed as federal ...

Dallas, Sept. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Istation, an industry leader in educational technology, announced today that Texas public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools will have free ...

Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess what knowledge students have retained, and how well they do on a level playing ...