Within three weeks, a pandemic has completely changed the national landscape on testing. The U.S. Department of Education has now excused all 50 states and the District of Columbia from the requi...
As civic education undergoes a renaissance in schools, educators are looking beyond standardized tests to determine whether the lessons empower students to embrace civic behaviors, like voting or...
AP has managed to dodge the partisan pitfalls that have felled other ambitious curricular efforts—so far, write Chester E. Finn Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan.
The arts, geography, economics, and foreign languages will lose their place in the testing line-up as the National Assessment of Educational Progress is being streamlined to cut costs.
"When the day came to administer the first test I had designed," writes Brandon Lewis, "my heart sank."
Louisiana and New Hampshire are among the handful of states that have stepped up to experiment with crafting new student assessments under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Allegations that some students lied about having disabilities so they could get special accommodations on college entrance exams have the disabilities community worried about a backlash.
The PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments have evolved since they were launched in 2015. Here's a guide to understanding them now.
This isn't the first time states and schools have turned to projects, portfolios, exhibitions, and essays to measure students' learning. Here are lessons from the last go-around.
Education Week asked three 8th grade teachers to evaluate real student responses to an open-ended question on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in social studies. Here's what they s...
Here's a handy glossary on terms like project-based learning, competency-based learning, and standards-based grading.
Group projects founder when students don't work well together. Here's the latest thinking on evaluating students on both content mastery and collaboration skills.
The U.S. Department of Education sees two specific challenges potentially undermining the quality of the international assessment program, writes Mark Schneider.
Montana has just decided to make testing under the Smarter Balanced assessment optional, after some serious technical glitches.
The collection and use of data about just how prepared individual children are to enter kindergarten can be a ticklish proposition.
The field tests have provoked enthusiasm and anxiety, but they can point to better testing in 2015.
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Virtual performance assessments allow students to tackle authentic science problems while measuring their proficiency, writes Pendred Noyce.
As the two big groups of states craft common-assessment systems, experts warn that the smallest details could undermine their work.
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