With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

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Question: What assessments and rubrics can we use to assess the language proficiency of young learners? Duarte M. Silva, Executive Director of the California World Language Project in Stanford, ...

Teachers use a variety of methods to assess mastery of a topic. We use observations, quick formative assessments, longer summative assessments, and long-term benchmark assessments. The problem is that ...

At the start of the most recent school year, the Eagle County School District continued the rollout of its new standards-based grading. As schools began to implement the new grading program at varying ...