At Summit Prep, in Redwood City, California, every teacher gathers real-time data—daily. They do this to gain insight into their students’ needs, informing how they teach every day. They use a variety of tools ranging from a free online personalized learn

Real-Time Assessment: Providing a Window Into Student Learning 

Your students can improve their work by recognizing the strengths and weaknesses in the work of others.

Critique Protocol: Helping Students Produce High-Quality Work

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Mastering Self-Assessment: Deepening Independent Learning Through the Arts

When teachers survey their classes at Trinidad Garza Early College High School, students see how their opinions matter and have a direct impact on instruction.

Student Surveys: Using Student Voice to Improve Teaching and Learning 

At Walter Bracken STEAM Academy, 100 percent of the fifth-grade students are meeting grade-level fluency standards in reading.

Series Reading Program: Creating a Culture of Reading

In Hampton High's Disaster Mission Relief, math students role-play air traffic controllers and pilots to assess their skills in a performance-based simulation.

Performance-Based Assessment: Making Math Relevant 

In Hampton High's PBA Chemistry Research Project, students create a model of their compound, produce a video about it, and defend it in a debate.

Performance-Based Assessment: Engaging Students in Chemistry 

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Exit Tickets: Checking for Understanding

Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond shares how using well-crafted formative and performance assessments, setting meaningful goals, and giving students ownership over the process can powerfully affect teaching and learning.

Five Keys to Comprehensive Assessment

Game designers at Mangahigh strive to find the perfect match between player skill and difficulty level in the standards-based teaching resources they build, and allow teachers to track student progress from within the games.

Online Math Games Balance Challenge with Mastery Learning

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Assessment

Rigorous expectations yield impressive results at New York's School of the Future, where regular assessments help keep students on track, and teachers strive to tap into students' true interests to bring out their best work.

Strategic Goals: Formative + Summative = Rigor

Educators at New York's School of the Future have enjoyed great success at teaching and assessing their students. Both efforts are squarely focused on student understanding of fundamental concepts and real-life learning. Making these efforts relevant and

What is "Authentic" Assessment?

Sticky notes coalesce into high-level analytical thinking in Sarah Kaufman's 6th grade humanities class, where complex concepts are broken down into manageable pieces that help students master challenging assignments.

Making Sure They Are Learning

Mistakes become learning opportunities in Ben Mook's 7th grade Algebra class. To assess his students, Mook challenges them to solve real life problems, and emphasizes their thought processes over getting the right answers.

Keeping It Relevant and "Authentic"

Even the smallest concepts become big enough to grasp in this middle school science class, where teacher Rob Olazagasti gives students opportunities to learn by creating, remember by experiencing, and show what they know by teaching.

Thinking Big About Engagement

Through constant investment in the assessment process, both students and teachers strive for true learning at School of the Future, a 6-12 school in Manhattan.

Comprehensive Assessment: A New York City Success Story

Linda Darling-Hammond

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Big Thinkers: Linda Darling-Hammond on Becoming Internationally Competitive

Lessons from Abroad: International Standards and Assessments

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An Introduction to Comprehensive Assessment

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Making a Case for Comprehensive Assessment

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