“This Test Is Instructionally Useful.” Where’s the Evidence?
Companies often say their assessments are instructionally useful, but they rarely provide evidence to support those claims.
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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills: A Focus on Analytical Thinking
Guidance on defining and assessing analytical thinking, a skill that’s increasingly important to students’ future success.
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Instructionally Useful Assessments: Don’t Tell Us—Show Us
Education leaders and vendors claim that many assessments are “instructionally useful.” Such claims must be highly specific, and supported by evidence.
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Assessment Data Masquerading as Instructionally Useful Information
Which kinds of tests provide information that helps teachers adjust their instruction? We outline 10 key features of instructionally useful assessments
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Ethical Thinking as a 21st Century Skill
Like other 21st century skills, ethical thinking presents substantial challenges to educators who want to define, teach, and assess it.
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Assessing Students’ Creative Thinking
Guidance on defining and assessing creative thinking, a skill that’s increasingly in demand among employers.
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A Flawed Approach to Supporting Teacher Learning: ‘Cruel Optimism’
In this TikTok era, we break teachers’ learning into bite-sized pieces and expect them to learn on their own. But we accept this model at our peril.
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How Test Prep Works Against the Spirit of Formative Assessment
The pressure of external tests can lead teachers to use formative assessment as test preparation. Here’s how to protect this important classroom practice.
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A Formative Assessment Journey
As she takes a new job at the Center, with new challenges to explore, an expert finds herself in the unsettling and exciting role of learner.
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What is Text Dependent Analysis?
Teaching students to analyze complex text is crucial in the age of misinformation. Our comprehensive new toolkit on text dependent analysis can help.
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Tension Between Educational Measurement and K-12 Assessment
There are striking disconnects in our work that can affect the impact our field can have on K-12 learning, educational measurement, and accountability.
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Using Formative and Large-Scale Assessment as Part of a Comprehensive Recovery System
It’s time to focus on the role of formative and large-scale assessment in student learning recovery efforts.
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Supporting the Implementation of Formative Assessment
Formative assessment implementation can be both impeded and facilitated, and we take a look at the factors that play into each outcome.
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A Guiding Framework to Improve Classroom Assessment Practices
A blog post from one of our interns presents a framework for improving classroom assessment practices.
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If I Ruled the World…
An appeal to State Department leaders to increase formative assessment practices in classrooms to help with pandemic recovery.
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Classroom Assessment Learning Modules 2.0
We’re offering 23 professional classroom assessment learning modules, an expansion of 7 modules offered at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Can a State Test Inform Instruction?
Using a state test to inform instruction is possible, but has limitations that educators and other stakeholders need to understand.
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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills: A Focus on Creativity
One in a series exploring research and best practices on defining, teaching and assessing 21st century skills.
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