With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don’t easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability. That squishiness ...

Douglas McCollum, a senior vice president and general manager at education publishing giant Pearson, sat down with Education Week at ISTE to talk about how the company sees the future of K-12 ...

Tests are an important tool in educators' arsenal. Photo by Andy Rennle/Flickr CC 2.0 We live in an age of assessment in education. One of my friends -- who happens to be a vice president of a large ...

Washington, DC – Learning Without Tears’ acclaimed Early Childhood curriculum, Get Set for School® (GSS), will now include the new Assessments to Guide Instruction, an addition to the complete program ...

Great Minds PBC® and Renaissance® announced today a partnership to empower educators using Eureka Math2® and Renaissance Next ...

Our focus is helping children who need additional support when reading and/or writing. Working collaboratively with parents, teachers, school administrators, and Clinic faculty, tutors and coaches ...

Can technology improve the effectiveness of assessments? According to a new report issued Monday by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), it can when it's used in a less ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Meridian, a nonprofit dedicated to developing high-quality assessment solutions for K-12 schools, is proud to announce ProgressGuide™ Assessment, a next-generation ...

Q: What do “alternative assessments” mean? When we want to know what students know, we give them a test or a quiz. However, these forms of testing don’t always reflect the application of the skills ...