How Better Teacher & Student Assessment Can Power Up Learning

Posted on August 29, 2011April 26, 2012 by coreeducation

The Teachers of the Washington New Millennium Initiative, an institute part of the Center for Teaching Quality, released a report this week focusing on how to create a results-oriented teaching profession. The group’s recommendations are: 1. A two-tiered assessment system with improved national- and state-level standardized tests. Student assessments must be changed to evaluate their Read more about How Better Teacher & Student Assessment Can Power Up Learning[…]

New Commission on the Future of Assessment in K-12 Education

Posted on May 4, 2011April 27, 2012 by coreeducation

Concerns over current and future emerging changes in the U.S. education enterprise have led one of the nation’s premier educational psychologists, Professor Edmund W. Gordon (photographed here) of Teachers College at Columbia University, to lead a two-year study group – the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in K-12 Education. The commission will consider Read more about New Commission on the Future of Assessment in K-12 Education[…]