Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? As I said in a previous popular Classroom Q & A post, Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process, ...

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 ...

Beside the hammer mentioned in the blog by Kingston, the other widely used and multi-faceted tool in most toolboxes is duct tape. When standardized test results for individual students are taped ...

A new free solution directly addresses the Common Core implementation challenges looming ahead for K-12 schools and districts around the country. Edulastic is a web-based formative assessment platform ...

This K-8 network recently opened its first school this year with 300 kids in K-3 and 6th grade. They will expand to 600 students in K-4 and 6&8 grade in the fall. By its third year it will become a ...

There have been a lot of questions--and anxieties--over what the rollout of the Common Core-aligned tests will mean for schools and students. EdSurge’s Tony and Leonard caught up with Tony Alpert, COO ...

Older student reading of informational texts like those found in most high school classrooms continue to be a concern. College entrance exams scores attest to the fact that this age group of readers ...

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 ...