Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test ...

If you’ve ever had the sense that grades didn’t truly reflect what students had learned, formal and informal talks can give ...

Darla K. Deardorff, Ed.D. Editor’s Note: Many educators struggle with how to assess global competence. Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Affiliated Faculty at Duke University, shares four ways to get started, ...

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 ...

With federal and state officials, accreditors and others all talking about the importance of assessment, what's going on in classrooms? Assessment, after all, takes place every time a professor gives ...

Coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s, I thought of school as a parallel universe. There was school life, which happened between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., and there was real life, which was ...

Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 36, No. 4 (May, 2002), pp. 462-494 (33 pages) This case study investigates the possible link between a classroom teacher's implementation of alternative ...

House Bill 8 scraps the unpopular exam for three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year starting in the ...

Test scores for students in reading and math show slight improvements this year, according to data released this week by the ...