For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

Districts should invest in ongoing, practical training that helps teachers understand both new technology and how formative ...

The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium, one of two groups of states that are designing common-core-aligned English-language proficiency tests, has chosen Data Recognition Corp.

Rashmi S Chari has been actively involved in the field of education for last 34 years. She is currently Director, Academics & Training, Bhartiya Shiksha Board (BSB). She was till recently Member, ...

It’s the time of year when students around the country are taking high stakes tests. More times than not, those tests are tied to a percentage of teacher and administrator evaluation. That percentage ...

In higher education circles, there is something of a feeding frenzy surrounding the issue of assessment. The federal government, due to release a proposed rating system later this fall, wants ...

Humans process enormous amounts of information per second, which is too much for us to intentionally process every single item. That is why we unintentionally process the vast majority of information ...

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

A three-day State-level learner's assessment training programme (Standards I to V) based on the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 for primary teachers and Education Department staff from eight ...