Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...
Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...
Teachers can use these research-based cognitive and behavioral cues to help students feel capable, focused, and ready to work ...
Teachers can include students in the process of designing a tool to measure their understanding of content—an additional learning opportunity.
Educational assessment seeks to determine how well students are learning and is an integral part of the quest for improved education. It provides feedback to students, educators, parents, policy ...
In a first-grade classroom at Creek View Elementary School, Linda Ngo turns learning into an experience. Desks can turn into ...
This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...
The goal is not to eliminate AI from the classroom; the goal is to ensure that human thinking remains central.
Ryan Hetchler is an experienced teacher, school administrator and district leader in private and public K–12 schools. He is the subject matter expert of curriculum and instruction at GoGuardian, where ...
It is no accident that the new National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) definition of social studies is focused on “human experiences and the spaces in which we interact as humans.” The culture ...
A large body of evidence demonstrates the use of technology in schools is nuanced, with more downsides to technology use than most people expect.