When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...
Two Westchester high schools will participate in a state pilot program aimed at helping schools shift toward performance-based assessments, which evaluate what students know by having them perform ...
Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...
The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...
With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...
Increasingly, colleges and employers are looking for strategies that will allow them to adopt skills-based learning and assessment, either as part of microcredentialing or a corporate training and ...
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