Teachers need more support to move testing from a “necessary evil” to a classroom tool, experts say. While summative assessments—like unit quizzes or annual state tests—are used for evaluation and ...

The latest Gonski review aims to improve evidence-based decision-making in Australian school education. It recognises that governments’ educational investment must be based on more than politics, just ...

When we started Envision Schools 13 years ago, we believed then--as we do now--that standardized assessments were necessary but insufficient for determining college and career readiness. It seemed ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Three important caveats should be borne in mind when reading this chapter. First, the ...

Portfolio assessment has proved to be an innovative way to track students' progress in economics classes, making learning deeper and more meaningful. Here’s how to do it Traditional assessments, like ...

Indirect Measures of student learning ask students to reflect on or self-assess their learning rather than demonstrate it. This can include measures of students’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and ...

As an attending physician working with a student for a week, you receive a form that asks you to evaluate the student's fund of knowledge, procedural skills, professionalism, interest in learning, and ...

The Committee on the Foundations of Assessment produced this report, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to review and synthesize advances in the cognitive and measurement ...