Performance Assessment
How well did your students learn? Find alternative ways to assess what they know and what they can do through the creation of authentic products and performances.
PBL and Standardized Tests? It Can Work!
There’s a tension between project-based learning and standardized testing prep, but also a wide swath of common ground.886Resources for Assessment in Project-Based Learning
Looking for tools and strategies for effective assessment in project-based learning? To support you, we've assembled this guide to helpful resources from Edutopia and beyond.5.6kIntrinsic Motivation vs. Standardized Tests
Low standardized test scores are a reflection of being uninspired, not unknowledgeable. Teach your students how to care, lose their fears, and identify and overcome their obstacles.1.5kHow Should We Measure Student Learning? 5 Keys to Comprehensive Assessment
Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond shares how using well-crafted formative and performance assessments, setting meaningful goals, and giving students ownership over the process can powerfully affect teaching and learning.12.3k6 Strategies for Differentiated Instruction in Project-Based Learning
Reflecting on learning and student voice and choice are core elements of project-based learning, and they’re also key to differentiation.10.3kPerformance-Based Assessment: Reviewing the Basics
Performance-based assessments share the key characteristic of accurately measuring one or more specific course standards. They are also complex, authentic, process/product-oriented, open-ended, and time-bound.10kGoing Gradeless: Student Self-Assessment in PBL
By replacing student grades with an end-of-quarter conference, you can change that persistent question of "Will I be graded on this?" to "What can I do better?"5.7kStrategies for Reaching Quiet, Disengaged, Struggling, and Troublemaking Students
Not every student benefits from in-class participation, immediate answers, inflexible grading, or harsh consequences. Learn the nuances for those requiring deeper recognition and a lighter touch.5k5 Strategies to Ensure Student Learning
After Arizona's Mesquite Elementary School developed a program to provide additional instruction time for students struggling with math, test scores shot to the top.9.6kHow Do We Measure Social and Emotional Learning?
Those concise assessments about social-emotional skills and character on the back of a report card can become valuable talking points between schools, parents, and students.3.7k3 Peaks and 3 Pits of Standards-Based Grading
When one school switched from traditional to standards-based grading, they saw positive changes in mindset, assessments, and communication -- but there's still room for improvement.4.2kTimely Feedback: Now or Never
Feedback is necessary for learning. Be prompt, kind, and specific, and give students opportunities to reflect before revising.2kThe 5 Keys to Successful Comprehensive Assessment in Action
Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond shares how using well-crafted formative and performance assessments, setting meaningful goals, and giving students ownership over the process can powerfully affect teaching and learning.2.3k4 Tips to Build Student Confidence
Edutopia blogger Matt Levinson, recognizing that students get overwhelmed by unfamiliar material and choke up on assessments, offers four confidence-building strategies: verbalizing, brain dumps, non-linear thinking creativity.2.1kAssessment, Choice, and the Learning Brain
Is there a difference between performance goals and mastery goals? Yes -- and that difference can affect student outcome on assessments.1.5k