Assessment

Traditional math assessments tend to provide a narrow gauge of student learning—here’s how some teachers are going deeper.

Clarity about learning objectives and questions that focus on the thinking process can lessen the chance that students will cheat.

Carefully deciding what to grade and providing students with rubrics can make grading less time-consuming.

Though they have the potential to excel in many fields, we’re neglecting a large body of students with a unique set of skills.

Work that emphasizes students’ developing skills instead of a graded product reminds them to see learning as their goal.

When students clearly understand classroom expectations, they’re better able to assess and improve their performance.

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

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.

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.

A few ways to set up formative and summative assessments that provide an accurate picture of what students know.

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.

Distance learning has forced many educators to take a closer look at traditional grading and contemplate better methods of assessment.

Your classroom can provide a safe harbor for teens during a year of upheaval—use this opportunity to impart metacognitive skills they’ll use throughout their lives.

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.