Education: examinations and assessment

Legal research abilities will determine success as a law student, and as a lawyer, to the point it's been argued the abilities should be tested on the bar exam.

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In Peer Feedback in the Classroom, National Board Certified Teacher Starr Sackstein explores the powerful role peer feedback can play in learning and teaching.

What is assessment literacy?

What is assessment literacy?

What if teachers could dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend reviewing and correcting student work and actually see better results in terms of student learning?

What if teachers could dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend reviewing and correcting student work and actually see better results in terms of student learning?

Assessment is messy.

While students who enter a new school must learn to adapt to a new situation, multilingual students who enter a new school must often first learn to adapt to a new country and a new language-and they must be assessed along with their peers.

This collection of articles from Educational Leadership pulls together some of the best pieces on formative assessment and feedback that will help educators understand how to best use the data they have at their fingertips.

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades.

As a teacher, what you want most is for your students to learn-to immerse themselves in rich and challenging content and leave your classroom better prepared for school and life.

This collection of articles from Educational Leadership pulls together some of the best pieces on formative assessment and feedback that will help educators understand how to best use the data they have at their fingertips.

In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein-a National Board Certified Teacher-explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress.

In How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data, best-selling author Susan M.

In How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data, best-selling author Susan M.

Grading systems often reward on-time task completion and penalize disorganization and bad behavior.

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English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time.

What does formative assessment look like, and when should I use it?

Now that the No Child Left Behind Act has left its mark on public education, educators across the United States are all the more invested in preparing their students for state and national assessments.

Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start.

Group work is a growing trend in schools, as educators seek more complex, more authentic assessment tasks and assign projects and presentations for students to work on together.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

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Teachers deserve to get the feedback and support that are necessary to make learning as powerful as possible--for both their students and themselves.

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All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning?

All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning?

A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material.

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember facts and procedures.

English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time.

Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start.

High-stakes testing.

In Linking Teacher Evaluation and Student Learning, researchers Pamela D.

Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead students to deep understanding of content.

With public and political demand for educational accountability never higher, educators are under enormous pressure to raise students' scores on standardized achievement tests.

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Signs of Change: Assessment Past, Present and Future Another Time, Another Place.

For many people, a high standard for student learning is desirable.

Assessment is the daily life of a teacher; designing plans, setting questions, giving feedback and grading are all activities that teachers undertake on a regular basis.

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