While 81% of educators believe their school or district promotes a strong assessment-focused culture, only 62% would describe themselves as proficient in assessment literacy While 81% of educators ...
What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely ...
Educators find more value in assessments today than they did after the first year of the pandemic, but the fewer clicks they make to create and grade an assignment, the better. Technology that frees ...
With that rhythm comes certain familiar fall routines as well, such as administering the first interim assessment, as well as collecting additional baseline formative and summative assessment data to ...
With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...
As school districts consider their assessment processes, it’s important to make sure assessments are being used appropriately to support academic recovery. This fall, K–12 educators across the country ...
The following is a guest post by Woody Dillaha and Jeanette Haren. In recent years, there has been a shift from a focus on summative assessment data, such as state test scores, to formative assessment ...
Summative assessments gauge student achievement after the completion of learning activities. While many of these are common such as exams, projects and essays, there are a larger variety of ways to ...
As educators, we all know the importance of data in decision-making. We understand how limited, skewed, or biased data–or no data at all–can result in faulty decision-making and regressive actions, be ...