Assessment

Ed Policy

Schools Are Testing the Past: How Assessment Must Evolve for Writing, Speaking, and Listening in the AI Age

Eric Tucker

Jul 24, 2026

Ed Policy

When AI Chases Test Scores, What Gets Left Behind?

David Ross

Jul 20, 2026

EdTech

We’ve Been Judging Symphony Rehearsals by the Last Note: Why Multimodal AI Can Finally Measure Mathematical Practice

Eric Tucker

Jul 17, 2026

Ed Policy

A Hint is Not a Diploma: Consequential Educational Decision Making in the Multimodal AI Era

Eric Tucker

Jul 8, 2026

Personalized Learning

Responsible Inference Engines: Safeguarding Students with Learning Differences in the AI Era

Eric Tucker

Apr 22, 2026

Four diverse students collaborating at a glass board displaying a debate resolution on privacy versus societal welfare.

Personalized Learning

Measuring What Matters: From Blunt Sorting to Human Thriving Powered by Multimodal AI

Eric Tucker

Mar 25, 2026

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Personalized Learning

Innovating What We Measure: Assessment in the Service of Human Potential in an Era of AI and Uncertainty

Eric Tucker, Edmund W. Gordon

Mar 18, 2026

To deliver on the promise of human potential, we must rebalance from the “assessment OF education” to “assessment FOR education,” transforming measurement into a dynamic pedagogical transaction that actively improves teaching and learning.

Four diverse middle schoolers collaborating on a robotics project with a tablet in a bright classroom setting.

Personalized Learning

Pathological Explanations for Learning Differences: Untangling the Signal from the Noise to Measure Ability in the Age of AI

Eric Tucker

Mar 11, 2026

Hand Isaac Newton a tablet for a physics exam today, and he would bomb it—his brilliance obscured by an inability to navigate a simulation. We educators commit this malpractice against neurodivergent students daily, diagnosing their minds as deficient instead of our broken tests. Myth vs. Science Pamela Cantor,…

Four diverse students collaborate around a molecular model in a science classroom, engaged in hands-on learning.

EdTech

Useful by Design: Innovating For Whom We Measure in the Multimodal AI Era

Eric Tucker

Mar 4, 2026

Discover how multi-modal AI can transform educational assessment design for greater efficiency and usability.

Three diverse teens smile while assembling a robot in a STEM classroom, one using a screwdriver, another holding a tablet.

EdTech

The Architecture of Ability: How Evidence-Centered Design and UDL Can Shape AI-Era Assessment

Eric Tucker, Edward Metz

Feb 18, 2026

ECD, UDL, and The Cow Path Educational measurement is at a crossroads. Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) finally opens a pathway to move beyond the industrial-era, one-size-fits-all summative test in favor of unobtrusive, agentic, and adaptive assessment. But directing raw computing power at children without guardrails is ill-advised. Using…

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From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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