The digital learning tools flooding schools come with a tantalizing promise: real-time feedback on what children know, combined with fingertip access to a dizzying array of tailored instructional ...

Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big ...

Four dozen teachers gathered recently to watch a colleague teach a lesson about Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and then analyzed her performance. But they didn’t crowd into the Massachusetts ...

A new tool aims to give teachers a better way to track student progress and outcomes. StudyBlue, a Madison, WI-based education technology provider, has launched Class Stats, a new formative assessment ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

How can you prepare students for workplace experiences that don’t exist yet? As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. The real test is finding ways to truly get your ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

Formative assessment is kind of the air we breathe in a classroom that’s active, that’s engaged, and where students are learning effectively. Joel: You describe a great environment where it’s embedded ...

As game-based learning gains momentum in education circles, teachers increasingly want substantive proof that games are helpful for learning. The game-makers at the non-profit GlassLab are hoping to ...