Glimpse K12’s Assessment Correlation Engine provides administrators with an inside look into how student grades reflect achievement achievement.
The act of evaluating teacher and principal performance by new measures is already becoming a thing of the past, Some 30 states have backed away from innovative evaluation reforms they adopted during a "flurry of national activity" between 2009 and 2015, according to a new report.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/09/19
To keep up with changing college admissions requirements, the education assessment nonprofit is making changes to how it administers its ACT test.
Students are able to engage more with large print books than other reading materials, according to a new study from Project Tomorrow and Gale.
Even as many states are backing away from high-stakes testing in math and English language arts that take place at the end of the school year, that doesn't necessarily mean they're "backsliding," according to a new report. Rather than "rolling back" advancements in test quality, accessibility and rigor under the weight of political pressures or demands for reductions in time spent on testing, some states are reforming their approach to assessment in innovative ways.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/10/19
Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis particularly on algebra and functions in math class beyond what they were doing a dozen years earlier. And in science, students are discussing the kinds of problems engineers solve more frequently.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/03/19
Education will see changes in how assessment is done in the new school year, according to education nonprofit NWEA. The organization, which develops preK-12 assessments and professional development, recently issued five trends that it expected will permeate the measurement of learning outcomes.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/15/19
Hatch is introducing a new adaptive learning platform that is targeted to ease the assessment burden for early childhood education platform.
Kahoot! is revamping its game creator with new features to make it faster and easier for teachers to use the platform.
More high school students have access to taking AP and IB classes, but new data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that these classes may not result in college credit.