Assessment
Look beyond high-stakes testing to learn about different ways of assessing the full range of student ability—social, emotional, and academic achievement.
The Proven Benefits of Grading Less
By shifting their focus from letter grades to meaningful feedback, teachers can unlock deeper learning, foster motivation, and minimize bias in the classroom.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A More Efficient and Productive Way to Conduct Math Assessments
Here’s how to assign graded work that more accurately assesses elementary students’ learning and saves time.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Build Better, More Effective Tests and Quizzes
Your tests might be falling short due to a few fixable missteps. Here’s how educators are fine-tuning their approach for better, more accurate results.How to Give Effective Feedback—and Save Your Sanity
Grading is a real pain point, but the good news is that giving students targeted feedback on their work is more effective for their learning and saves teachers time.Encouraging Students to Own Their Academic Growth
When students use a hands-on approach to track their own progress, goals, and test scores, they begin to take responsibility for their learning.
7 Smart, Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment
Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.66.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Getting Rid of Zeros Won’t Fix the Grade Book
Well-meaning efforts to assess learning accurately have led some schools to set 50 as the lowest grade, but that can have negative consequences. Here’s a better solution.Your Students Struggled on an Assessment—Now What?
You can give an assessment, use the results to design differentiated learning experiences to catch students up, and still keep up with pacing requirements.
The Case Against Zeros in Grading
Teachers can rethink their grading practices to make them more mathematically fair for students and allow for redemption for a missed assignment.33.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Using Checklists to Support Hands-On Science Learning
Working at their own pace with a scaffold allows students to build knowledge and have positive learning experiences.195Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Why Teachers Should Grade Less Frequently
Excessive grading stresses out kids and teachers, stifles innovative teaching, and fails to deliver as a true measurement of learning.
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020
We reviewed hundreds of educational studies in 2020 and then highlighted 10 of the most significant—covering topics from virtual learning to the reading wars and the decline of standardized tests.24kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Representing Student Proficiency and Progress With Visual Rubrics
By creating a visual representation of students’ performance, teachers can help them make sense of their skills and areas for growth.478Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.28 Ways to Quickly Check for Understanding
From sketching comics to drafting tweets, these fun—and fast—ways to check for understanding are creative and flexible.Setting Up Standards-Based Grading in a Traditional School
Individual teachers may feel like they can’t implement standards-based grading on their own, but an educator who managed it in a variety of schools over a decade explains how it can be done.
