These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

It’s been an interesting week for the ongoing debate about skills and content. Take, for instance, the first in a series of guest posts on the Common Core group’s blog by an anonymous teacher at a New ...

A new book, Formative Assessment for Literacy: Grades K-6, provides some help for regular elementary or reading teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms. The book, published by Corwin Press, isn’t ...

“All they do is force us to test, test, test – why don’t they just let us teach?”This has become a typical battle cry among teachers across the country since No Child Left Behind was passed as federal ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Formative, a SaaS-based real-time student data platform, today announced a $70 million minority investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners ...

The Aug. 27 article In Miami-Dade, every day is a school testing day contained a number of inaccuracies regarding student assessment: The 2015-2016 testing calendar, the article’s theme, outlines ...

Dallas, TX (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Istation, a leader in educational technology, announced today that the West Virginia Department of Education has selected Istation as a K-3 formative assessment for ...

DALLAS, May 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Istation, a leader in educational technology, has been selected by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) as a kindergarten ...