Four dozen teachers gathered recently to watch a colleague teach a lesson about Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and then analyzed her performance. But they didn’t crowd into the Massachusetts ...

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the ...

How can you prepare students for workplace experiences that don’t exist yet? As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. The real test is finding ways to truly get your ...

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 ...

What do PARCC and Smarter Balanced offer in addition to their year-end tests? If you gave teachers across the country a pop quiz on that question, you’d probably get a lot of bewildered looks. Many ...

CFY, an education nonprofit, has updated its free learning platform, PowerMyLearning, with new tools for formative assessments. PowerMyLearning allows educators to create and assign playlists of ...

Student engagement in an online or blended setting can be challenging, but as a freshman writing faculty member at Berkeley College, while studying computer-based formative assessment for my ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

Tests are an important tool in educators' arsenal. Photo by Andy Rennle/Flickr CC 2.0 We live in an age of assessment in education. One of my friends -- who happens to be a vice president of a large ...