Common formative assessment techniques can work a little better with these simple tweaks.

In the House-passed version of the state’s operating budget, Amended Substitute House Bill 96, they propose tossing the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment (KRA), a teacher-administered ...

Summative vs formative assessment is the topic of our blog post today! Navigating the realm of educational assessments can feel like a tightrope walk. On one side, we have formative assessments—those ...

The Trump administration has dismissed all of the scientists working on the sixth National Climate Assessment — a major congressionally-mandated climate report that details the way the changing ...

The National Intelligence Council, drawing on the acumen of the United States’ 18 intelligence agencies, determined in a secret assessment early this month that the Venezuelan government is not ...

What is summative assessment data used for, how can we ensure it is purposeful, valid, and reliable, and how can school leaders use it to inform school improvement and to improve student outcomes?

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Fayette County Public Schools fared well when it came to the results of the 2023-24 Kentucky Summative Assessment. In some areas the classrooms have returned to pre ...

as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the summative assessments that will measure them. For example, if students will be asked to write a final research paper, ...

Teachers will use the results as an instructional baseline to tailor classroom instruction and other services for pre-K and kindergarten students. Additionally, the assessment will measure the ...

The state is in the midst of expanding transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by the time school starts in 2025. That would mean a lot more 4-year-olds taking an assessment meant for older kids.