Assessment

Standardized tests are an inevitable part of school life, but education leader Ron Berger wants to remind administrators to keep holding space for the real reason teachers show up: to help kids become great thinkers and human beings.

A review of a dozen recent studies reveals that to design good tests, teachers need to consider bias, rigor, and mindset.

Removing summative assessments from instructional practice can make class more interesting, engaging, and stress free for students.

By ensuring that their grading methods accurately report content knowledge, teachers can promote and reward student growth.

Implementing self-paced learning helped an eighth-grade algebra teacher scaffold and differentiate instruction, creating a student-centered class.

How the practice of “ungrading” transformed a teacher’s life, and motivated her students to think for themselves.

A look at how one teacher adjusted her policies to encourage learners to turn in quality assignments, even if they were late.

Metacognitive tasks can help eliminate guessing and ensure that elementary students show what they know on standardized tests.

Even as schools across the country experiment with new models for assessing students, they aren’t ready to commit to a wholesale divorce from the A to F letter grades that have been around since the 1940s.

Unconscious bias may be unavoidable, but here’s how you can reduce its destructive impact.

Providing math students with positive feedback can help them clarify their thinking, take risks, and apply concepts in new contexts.

Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online.