When talks between the U.S. Department of Education and teacher-preparation programs over performance-based accountability collapsed last month, no one should have been surprised. Like most other ...

Teacher involvement in the design, use, and scoring of performance assessments has the potential to powerfully link instruction, assessment, student learning, and teacher professional development.

As you surely know by now, the Common Core State Standards in language arts and math were designed to get students to engage in problem solving, communicate effectively, and think more critically. As ...

This post is by Vinci Daro and Ruth Chung Wei who work at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) at Stanford University. “This is absolutely critical to improve our ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Last week I promised to begin exploring current schooling issues from the perspective of our instructional time principle (i.e. the only method by which school learning can be increased is by ...

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When it meets Thursday, Idaho’s State Board of Education will discuss next steps after an audit showed 99 percent of teacher assessments from the 2014-15 school year were incomplete, late or done ...

Soon, a sharp number two pencil won't be the only tool teachers need to pass state licensure tests. Paywall-free, every day. MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely ...

MILWAUKEE-- In it's first meeting, the Milwaukee Public School's Committee on Student Achievement and School Innovation (SASI ...