My colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged today that the U.S. Department of Education is giving $67 million to groups of states that will create Common Core assessments aimed at students who have severe ...

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale referred to my Sept. 22 column on inflated tests scores as “inaccurate” and “unsubstantiated” in his Sept. 27 letter to the editor (“Column on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Before starting at his Harlem high school, Jeurry always assumed he was ...

My colleague Stephen Sawchuk attended the annual assessment conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers in Los Angeles. He filed this report: Texas has become the first state to have its ...

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day! Of course, standards don ...

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is pushing to swap federally mandated end-of-year standardized tests for alternative assessments like the SAT, CLT, and frequent benchmarks, but the overhaul ...

Traditional grading has been shown to undermine students’ motivation (Kohn, 2011) and perpetuate bias (Malouf and Thorenstein, 2016). While we all need to collect information about student learning ...

Chris Domaleski, a senior associate at the National Center for Improvement of Educational Assessment, agrees that it is typical to use more items on a field test than are planned for a fully ...

Some of the examples reviewed here are also mentioned in our resources on authentic assessments and alternative grading methods. In those contexts, the assignments are embedded in an assessment method ...