Assessment plays a monumental role in any classroom. Educators use a variety of assessment types all to understand what students have learned or still need to learn within their curriculum. However, when assessing English Language Learners, or ELLs, it can be difficult to determine if a student’s misconceptions are due to language ability or difficulty […]
3 Tips for Using Assessment Tools to Capture Student Learning Data
Measuring and tracking student data is essential to ensuring that students are learning and progressing in the classroom. Yet, collecting and managing this data to improve teaching and learning can be a challenge, especially as educators may collect a large number of data points in any given school year. By utilizing technology-based assessment tools, they […]
4 Ways To Improve Exam Content Validity
Whether you are an educator or an employer, ensuring you are measuring and testing for the right skills and achievements in an ethical, accurate, and meaningful way is crucial. If you want to make sure your students are knowledgeable and prepared, or if you want to make sure a potential employee or staff member is […]
Aligning Digital Assessment Questions to Common Core Learning Standards
As the primary guidelines for what students need to be able to demonstrate and understand, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) play a critical role in planning and implementing lessons. A key component of this is, of course, designing common core assessments that align with the standards, including digital assessments. Creating digital common core assessment […]
Why are Schools Shifting The Focus from Summative Assessment?
Assessing student achievement and abilities is an important part of determining whether instruction is effective or not. Over the last few years, schools and educators have been moving away from traditional high-stakes summative assessments and towards other forms of assessment to determine a student’s skill level. This shift, initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has changed […]
3 Strategies for Promoting the Science of Reading in K12 Schools
Over the last five years, student reading scores in the United States have been declining, this decline is even more pronounced after 3 years of a global pandemic. With 35% of students in grades K-2 categorized as having literacy skills far below grade level and an ever-widening gap in literacy skills for students in poverty, […]
