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

Like many other concerned teachers, I’ve been reading the Obama administration’s blueprint for how educational reforms should unfold. Most of the ideas revolve around using a national curriculum that ...

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 ...

Many educators have never heard of formative assessment or aren’t easily convinced that self- and peer-assessment strategies have a place in higher education. Instructional designers have a unique ...

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, ...

When education systems around the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with intermittent closures and hybrid learning modalities, the role of learning assessment as a fundamental feedback ...

Eli has been eagerly pursuing a journalistic career since he left the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism. Previously, Eli was a staff reporter for medical trade publication ...

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 ...

We live in a world that has been recently reshaped in many ways. Among the areas most impacted by the pandemic is the state of K-12 education. After years of disrupted learning, setbacks in students’ ...

"There's definitely an understanding among teachers that formative assessment is a best practice and that there's a lot of value in doing it," Rohy says. "But what we've been hearing from teachers for ...