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

Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big benefits for student learning.

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, ...

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 ...

When we design assessment with transparency, cultural awareness and inclusivity in mind, it becomes a tool for supporting ...

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 that provide ...

Ellevation Education, a Curriculum Associates company, today announced the launch of Ellevation Benchmark, a new English language proficiency (ELP) assessment designed to help educators monitor ...

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 ...