Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...

In 1988, the United Kingdom embarked upon a series of education policy changes that paralleled trends in the United States: the development of a national curriculum, or standards; tests linked to ...

Assessment is a ubiquitous part of classroom life. Most exchanges between teacher and students are an occasion for considering the quality of student work. Often informal, assessment is a natural ...

Authors: Lorrie Shepard, Elena Diaz-Bilello, William Penuel, and Scott Marion Suggested Citation: Shepard, L. A., Diaz-Bilello, E., Penuel, W. R., & Marion, S. F ...

(TNS) — Many assumed — rightly or wrongly — that the common-core era would bring a windfall for companies in the state testing business. But one of the biggest shifts in the landscape so far has been ...

Our research found significantly higher student performance at schools that measure fundamental school quality factors and boast high levels of student engagement. What effect does student engagement ...

Are you lost in the sea of possible assessments of student learning? Are you struggling to fit together different assessments to understand where your students are at? Do you want some tools for ...

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day! Of course, standards don ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Airasian, P. W. ( 1991). Classroom assessment. New York: McGraw Hill. American ...