Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test ...

What is CAT? Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commentary Teaching performance assessments strengthen instruction and improve student outcomes; let’s not change that Marquita Grenot-Scheyer Mary Vixie Sandy A kindergarten teacher helps a girl and ...

Student performance is still struggling to rebound from the pandemic. A new report is giving a post-COVID look at how the ...

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress — a nationwide test administered in 2024 — underscores what President Donald J. Trump has been ...