Assessment

Look beyond high-stakes testing to learn about different ways of assessing the full range of student ability -- social, emotional, and academic achievement.

How to Make Sure Grades Are Meaningful and Useful to Students
Giving grades that truly reflect student learning is one of the perennial problems in teaching, and these shifts in thinking about how to gather and report grades can help.
Tyler Rablin
Better Ways to Measure Student Progress
Distance learning has forced many educators to take a closer look at traditional grading and contemplate better methods of assessment.
Matthew Campbell
Formative and Summative Assessment in a Hybrid Classroom
Getting a true sense of students’ learning and discouraging cheating is tough when some students are in the room and some are at home, but it can be done.
Kasey Short
4 Assessment Strategies for Distance and Hybrid Learning
A few ways to set up formative and summative assessments that provide an accurate picture of what students know.
Kyleen Gray
In Schools, Are We Measuring What Matters?
The psychologist, researcher, and MacArthur Fellow Angela Duckworth believes that to make better decisions in our school systems, we need to rethink the way we measure student capabilities.
Stephen Merrill
7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom
Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online.
Nora Fleming
Summative Assessment in Distance Learning
Whether schools are using regular grades or not, teachers need to accurately assess learning while their students are at home. These are some helpful ideas to consider.
Andrew Miller
Managing the Virtual and Hybrid Teaching Workload
Many teachers are finding their work to be more demanding this year, so looking for ways to simplify some of it is important.
Beth Pandolpho
Using Student-Generated Questions to Promote Deeper Thinking
Asking students to create their own questions has a powerful impact on learning. Plus, 5 tips to encourage high-quality questions.
Youki Terada
7 Smart, Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment
Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.
Laura Thomas
5 Keys to Successful Homework Assignments During Remote Learning
While students and their families are coping with so much, teachers should be mindful to assign only homework that’s truly meaningful.
Crystal Frommert
The Case for Not Allowing Test Retakes
As more educators drop penalties for late work and allow students to redo tests, a high school teacher says that traditional policies are better for the majority of students.
Anthony Palma
5 Apps to Enhance Distance Learning
These (mostly free) applications allow teachers to create virtual classrooms, record lessons, and collect student work.
Kyleen Gray
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60-Second Strategy: Respond, Reflect, and Review
This simple activity helps students practice giving and receiving peer feedback—and gets them out of their desks.
3 Reasons Students Procrastinate—and How to Help Them Stop
Psychologists have uncovered reasons why students put off important work. But there are a few simple things teachers can do to keep students on track.
Youki Terada