The Department of Education has issued final regulations clarifying how to test students with the most severe cognitive disabilities and include those results in schools’ performance ratings. “Title I ...
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 ...
Introduction to the Special Issue on Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards: New Policy, New Practices, and Persistent Challenges Introduction to the Special Issue on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a heralded state commission recommended major changes to New York's high school graduation requirements in November, two ...
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 ...
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