Out of Many, One
…members from the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative, recently renamed as MALI, the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative. These visual and performing arts teachers were so passionate and engaged that they left…
Search Results for Assessment
Scaffolding a Librarian into Your Course: An Assessment of a Research-Based Model for Online Instruction
This excerpt is taken from Kelly O. Secovnie and Lane Glisson’s article “Scaffolding a Librarian into Your Course: An Assessment of a Research-Based Model for Online Instruction,” from the December…
The Value of Staying Connected through NCTE
…students from ELL or other diverse learning backgrounds. But these assessments drive a lot in our educational systems. Think about the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). As you know,…
Where’s the “We” in Assessment?
…webinar a group of NCTE educators discusses student work from this year’s National Day on Writing and what questions it raises about assessment. The big one: How are we assessing…
K-12 Standardized Assessment – the View from College
We’ve been asking educators from all grade levels to share their stories and thoughts about assessment. Our responses span a wide spectrum, but in one arena the message from the…
Insights from edTPA Implementation
Like any significant change to a major system, edTPA (a new performance-based assessment for licensing teachers) presents challenges and tensions for those who must accommodate this change. Those tensions were…
Process and Professionalism
…student is making two important points. First, she only has limited time for school. Accordingly, she will edit one time using my assessment (and peer assessment). It’s an open-admissions school,…
A Common Language for Responding to Writing
The following is a response to the Assessment Story Project we got from Matt, a college educator. He’s addressing the question: What assessments–other than standardized tests–might we design to ensure…
Twitter as an Advocacy Tool
…number of students lacking economic opportunities #literacyadvocacy @Representative: Fund research on assessments that are proven effective; give states & localities flexibility to implement #literacyadvocacy @Representative: Fund research on effective assessments:…
Are My Students Okay?
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. This post was written by NCTE member Eric D. Turley, a member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. Note:…
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