assessment

by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking...The post Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension appeared first on TeachThought.

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Tests aren’t going away anytime soon, and as the stakes increase, when the time for tests rolls around everybody in the classroom can get a little edgy. Teachers need all the help they can find...The post 5 Basic Tips To Reduce Student Test Anxiety appeared first on TeachThought.

Getty Images Competency-based learning, which allows students to progress at their own pace after they’ve shown mastery of a subject, rather than by their age, is quickly gaining momentum....

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The last part of the short presentation about backchannels and informal assessment that I gave at the Texas Library Association's conf

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By Heather M. Stocker, TeachThought Intern It’s like looking at a photograph where only a small bit of the picture is discernible, but you can’t tell that what you’re actually looking at. This is what...The post What To Do When Students Turn In Incomplete Work appeared first on TeachThought.

Critics of the U.S. education system have set out to determine which evaluation method produces data that best captures the way students learn and the way they progress toward classroom goals. Since the No Child...The post 12 Strategies For Critical Assessment appeared first on TeachThought.

One of my students came up to me at the beginning of this year and said, “I’ll be graduating next year because of you.” It was a wonderful experience and one that I hadn’t experienced...The post 3 Tips, 2 Strategies, & 1 Reminder For Installing A No-Zero Policy appeared first on TeachThought.

By Heather M. Stocker, TeachThought Intern Many teachers see zeroes as punitive, but teaching 11th Grade English has taught me that the least motivational force on the planet is a zero. Though many teachers would...The post No-Zero Policy: Students Don’t See Zeroes The Same Way Adults Do appeared first on TeachThought.