Testing
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Educators: Do You Know About These Alternatives to High-Stakes Tests?
How to best quantify educational achievement and recognize academic progress is a continually hot debate. Standardized tests are too uniform and broad in scope ... -
Teachers: Make the Most of Your Classroom Assessments
While it’s usually outside the scope of a teacher’s responsibilities to make decisions about standardized testing in school, it is every teacher’s responsibility to ... -
Objective Assessments: Are Choice-Based Tests Best for Your Classroom?
When it comes to potential structures for classroom assessments, choice-based tests are an oft-used format. They’re easy to make, straightforward to grade, and simply-structured ... -
Effort affects everything
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest ... -
Three Important Critiques of Standardized Assessments
While there’s no doubt that standardized assessment has become a driving force in education, it’s not yet universally agreed that this is a good ... -
Important Ways Assessment in the Classroom Impacts Testing and Curriculum
Assessment has become a central part of education. While lifelong learning should always be the main focus of a classroom, the pervasive knowledge that ... -
Top 6 Reasons Most Americans Have No Faith in the Education System
By now, just about every American parent has seen the reports that American schools rank well below schools in countries such as China and ... -
Should we grade teachers on student performance?
Should teachers be judged on student performance? Is it a fair assessment of their skills as educators? A recent study published in Educational Evaluation ... -
Eliminating tests through continual assessment
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest ... -
Students who repeat a year stoke bad behaviour in class
Clara G. Muschkin, Duke University Students who are held back a year in school or who are older than average for their grade have ...
