This K-8 network recently opened its first school this year with 300 kids in K-3 and 6th grade. They will expand to 600 students in K-4 and 6&8 grade in the fall. By its third year it will become a ...
Boston Public Schools has selected a new partner to provide formative assessment resources in an effort to better support student instruction. "Boston leaders have already started using Measured ...
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 ...
You probably had no idea what was going to be tested, so you tried to study for everything; you did your very best, and then you waited for your results. The teacher handed the test back about a week ...
The Aug. 27 article In Miami-Dade, every day is a school testing day contained a number of inaccuracies regarding student assessment: The 2015-2016 testing calendar, the article’s theme, outlines ...
This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Part One in this series featured responses from Jennifer Serravallo, Andrew Miller, Daniel R. Venables, Brady E. Venables, ...
Significant initiatives are being widely implemented across the United States to improve student learning through enhanced digital content. The use of iPad in the classroom has opened many doors to ...
The Graduate Student Services (GSS) office is pioneering new ways of growing the intellectual, ethical, social, and spiritual capacities of Lynch School master’s and doctoral candidates. A new set of ...
Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...