This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). There is widespread agreement that test-based accountability ...

Through the work of a few districts that have the federal government’s blessing, New Hampshire is moving closer to answering a question it’s been asking for a while: Can schools and districts ...

A restricted-response assessment performance task is a teaching tool. Corporations and some smaller companies use this specifically for training new employees or updating skills. Assessment tools for ...

If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a ...

The digital format for this year’s Badger Exam isn’t the only new testing concept that students and teachers must adjust to. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a longer, more ...

Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing teaching and learning. It presents all those involved with new challenges in assessing performance and designing examination formats that ...

Performance assessments should test the competencies set down in the learning objectives. If you are uncertain about how to design your performance assessment, it is useful to orient it first ...

Parents are being told that the first big issue for a new Secretary of Education in the Biden administration is deciding whether schools should test or not test students in 2020. However, a much ...