Assessment is a ubiquitous part of classroom life. Most exchanges between teacher and students are an occasion for considering the quality of student work. Often informal, assessment is a natural ...

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 ...

Allowing retakes gives students another chance to learn and to demonstrate learning—the challenge is making redos work within ...

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day! Of course, standards don ...

PAGE’s Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim says the ‘high stakes’ focus on comparison-driven assessments leaves children without a sense of curiosity. (Bernama pic) Malaysia’s ongoing education reforms may ...

The goal is not to eliminate AI from the classroom; the goal is to ensure that human thinking remains central.

In this reflection, a case from a teacher training programme in Lagos would suffice. During a multi-month STEM-focused ...

HOUSTON – For 11 years, Lyndsy Mason has been inside a classroom teaching students at her own pace. This year, though, things are a bit different. Pre-planned lesson plans, cameras recording her ...

Understanding and managing a room full of students is often a “trial by fire” for less experienced educators, according to Megan Ryan, the mentor coordinator for teacher professional development at ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...