Assessment
8 Learning Platform Observations, 8 Startup Signals
What does the platform revolution mean for learning? After reviewing K-12, HigherEd, corporate and professional learning platforms, here are eight observations and eight trends spotted.
3 Reasons SEL Assessments Aren’t “Just Another Test”
By: Jonathan E. Martin. When discussing implementing SEL Assessments in school, the reaction is often concern around over-testing students. Here are three reasons this testing can actually be beneficial.
Does the Classroom Prepare Students for the Real World or Just More Testing?
As a new teacher, I was introduced early on to alternative forms of testing that may help transform school learned information from technical facts to applicable knowledge, such as Integrated Performance Assessment.
Part 1: What Does it REALLY Mean to Do Standards-Based Grading?
The first blog in a two part series exploring how a district can implement high quality standards-based grading, and when it is the right time to do so.
6 EdTech Tools for Modernizing Assessment
By: Jayme Cook. Contemporary education trends are heading toward more individualistic assessment approaches. Here are six edtech tools that can help educators align assessments with this trend.
Infographic | Why It Is Imperative to Assess Social Emotional Learning
By: Jonathan E. Martin and Jeremy Burrus. Helping students develop noncognitive strengths is something nearly every teacher addresses daily. This infographic explains more on why it is so important for educators to assess social emotional learning in schools.
6 Apps That Can Help with Student Assessment
By: Jenny Wise. There is one aspect of education that all teachers and learners face: assessment. So here are a few creative methods for using technology that can help provide a more accurate and useful assessment of performance and learning.
Reclaiming Assessment for Deeper Learning
By: Dennis Udall. More about education leaders who are catalyzing innovative approaches to assessment that encourage observing, collecting and interpreting evidence of deeper learning.
Social and Emotional Learning and Assessment: The Demand is Clear
By: Jonathan Martin. Noncognitive skill assessment is a necessary, even critical component, of strengthening social and emotional learning in schools.
The Role of Performance Monitoring in Competency-Based Education
By: Jason Ellingson. Competency-based learning may resolve some of the concerns with current approaches to performance monitoring being publicly displayed.