The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

It’s been an interesting week for the ongoing debate about skills and content. Take, for instance, the first in a series of guest posts on the Common Core group’s blog by an anonymous teacher at a New ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

A new book, Formative Assessment for Literacy: Grades K-6, provides some help for regular elementary or reading teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms. The book, published by Corwin Press, isn’t ...

Formative assessment is kind of the air we breathe in a classroom that’s active, that’s engaged, and where students are learning effectively. Joel: You describe a great environment where it’s embedded ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

As game-based learning gains momentum in education circles, teachers increasingly want substantive proof that games are helpful for learning. The game-makers at the non-profit GlassLab are hoping to ...

Dallas, Sept. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Istation, an industry leader in educational technology, announced today that Texas public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools will have free ...

The Aug. 27 article In Miami-Dade, every day is a school testing day contained a number of inaccuracies regarding student assessment: The 2015-2016 testing calendar, the article’s theme, outlines ...

This pedagogical Catch-22 might explain the relatively slow evolution of tech tools in this category. Even as online learning environments and instructional systems add increasingly sophisticated ...