Assessments based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are coming to many states. To date, 18 states have adopted NGSS. Other states have or are adopting new science standards that are ...
In many of our schools today there is a very tight fit among standards, testing and punitive accountability for teachers and schools. This has turned out to be a toxic mess leading to cheating and ...
Assessment, traditionally used by individual teachers to monitor student learning and to provide a basis for assigning grades, has always been a critical component of the education system (Glaser and ...
Join this webinar to learn from four school leaders who have guided their communities through a shift in grading practices and are successfully implementing standards-based grading. During this panel ...
Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...
The task of the Committee on Title I Testing and Assessment was to develop a guide for states and districts to assist them in implementing the Title I statute. This guide includes criteria for the ...
Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, and I think troublesome, standards-based grading movement, I must give special attention to a new study that reveals ...
Today’s guest post is written by Thomas Guskey, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Educators have the odd habit of taking simple ideas and making them inexplicably ...
In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC) issued interrelated final standards on quality management intended to clarify and improve ...