Tag: education
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Progress Monitoring That Matters: Using Validated Score Interpretations to Evolve Balanced Assessment Systems
There is growing consensus that a single end-of-year assessment provides student learning information too late to be instructionally supportive. For this reason, roughly 25% of states are moving to or piloting some type of progress monitoring assessment system to help determine if students are growing during the year. One of the reasons I advocate for…
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Creating a Strategic Plan for Competency-Based Education
Our education system may not be cultivating the workforce of tomorrow. A recent article in Forbes shows that many managers believe Gen-Z workers lack essential skills like problem-solving, collaboration, creativity, and the ability to engage in productive conflict resolution. As a result, these young graduates are less likely to be hired. Brandt et al. (2025)…
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Is Your Student Stuck in the Same Stage of Learning?
Four Key Assessment Use Strategies to Increase Student Achievement M. Christina Schneider Moss and Brookhart (2019) in their book, Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom: A Guide for Instructional Leaders, defined formative assessment as a teacher and student collaboration using systematic processes to (a) collect, (b) analyze and (c) take action to improve learning based…
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Teaching to the Test, Racing to the Test, or Reviewing for the Test: What are the Differences, and Why Does it Matter?
It is that time of year again. End-of-course exams are either being administered to your students or are about to be. These tests are designed to sample content from your state’s standards so policy makers can make inferences about how much of the standards each student learned this year. Students are measured at the end…
Actionable Assessments in the Classroom 