Assessment
Improving Organizational Culture: Discovering Your Core Strengths
Organizations are comprised of unique individuals with varying strengths and talents who are all working together to carry out the organization’s mission, vision, and personality. Strengths assessments are great tools to help an individual uncover their strengths and talents.
Why We Should Test English Language Learners in their Home Language
By: Adam Withycombe. Assessing kids in their first, or home language is a better pathway to provide every student an equal opportunity to demonstrate what they know and what they’re ready to learn next.
Investing in Innovation: Where’s the Federal Support?
By: Arthur VanderVeen. The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority invites up to seven states to develop innovative, next-generation assessments that better support student-centered learning.
The Real Value of State Assessments
By: Arthur VanderVeen. Arthur VanderVeen, President and CEO of New Meridian, shares his insights on the power of assessments in ensuring equitable access to quality education that provides tools for continuous improvement and collaboration.
Canvas Adds Assessment Tools, Wants to Help End The Big Test
In April, Instructure acquired MasteryConnect, a leader in formative assessment. Tom explains why this may mark the beginning of the end of standardized testing.
A Proposal to End Standardized Testing
Standardized testing and its lack of integration with formative measures, continues to receive backlash as we continue the shift to digital learning. Tom Vander Ark shares an approach on how states can develop better systems and the power of diploma networks to accurately capture whole student growth and achievement.
Now That Schools Are Promoting Broader Definitions of Success, How Do We Measure Progress?
As more schools adopt broader learning goals, there are a few questions vexing school leaders, including: How can we measure growth in creative thinking? How can we measure whether our graduating high school seniors have the habits necessary to succeed at college and throughout adult life?
3 Lessons from Curriculum Associates’ Explosive Growth
In a seemingly endless sea of edtech companies, learn how one has seen its revenues grow nearly 1,000 percent in the last 10 years to nearly $260 million.
The ‘Show Me’ Grading System of the Future
Changing the way we grade, report and evaluate student learning can oftentimes feel like an uphill battle. But our students deserve better. This post contains some useful steps and food for thought to plan for progress in that direction.
Reflections on NAEP: Breaking the Reactionary Cycle
In the wake of large-scale test score releases (especially those showing mediocre or negative results), political will for innovative educational programs often subsides. A system perspective shift toward whole-child development could stem this trend.