When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). There is widespread agreement that test-based accountability ...

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

Planning and aligning your assessments with your learning outcomes is central to effective assessment design and is key to good course design. In this way, you ensure that your assessment tasks match ...

For assessments to be used effectively in schools, it’s important for districts and schools to consider what assessments are intended for and how the data gained from the assessments will be applied ...

Social Policy is an interdisciplinary and applied subject concerned with the analysis of different societies' responses to inequality and social need. The Department’s teaching and assessment approach ...

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...