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Using Technology-Enhanced Items Effectively to Close Student Achievement Gaps
By: Aditya Agarkar. Why we expect assessments to become more varied, less mundane, and more interesting overall. The result: reduced achievement gaps and better learning outcomes.
Just Where Did We Lose Those Educational Keys?
By: Ace Parsi. As part of a comprehensive assessment system, performance assessments can better inform both policy makers’ and educators' and have the potential to deepen that learning.
The Future of Assessment
New report by Sir Michael Barber and Dr. Peter Hill outlines six key features of the education revolution and shares how we are on the brink of an assessment renaissance that will help secure high standards for all.
The Next Big Thing in Personalization: The Student
By: Arthur VanderVeen. What’s been missing in learning technologies—and what will be the next big focus in personalization—is the student.
Formative Assessment: Progress, Barriers and Opportunity
The progress made, current barriers and opportunities that face formative assessment with the ongoing shift to digital learning and increasing access new technologies and data.
A New Start on Accountability
Building off the new blog series, #TheNewAccountability, how student-centered learning, meaningful data, and innovation zones can improve school accountability systems.
Teachers Deserve Better Tools for Tracking Subskills
Most schools have no way to combine the assessment information from multiple sources in ways that are useful for driving instructional improvement or managing student progress. While this seems to be an easy problem to solve, there appear to be four significant problems.
Next Gen Accountability: Ohio & Beyond
A discussion of how accountability should work--from students to universities--with a few comments about where Ohio is on the curve.
David Dockterman on 4 Belief Statements Underlying Student Performance
David Dockterman would like to see more productive failure. But as a lecturer at Harvard’s GSE, Dockterman sees students afraid to blemish a polished transcript.
Performance-Based Assessment in Action
Close your eyes and imagine an innovative school, a next-generation school that excels at preparing students to thrive in college and career.