Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Maryland Matters. Five days after the Maryland State Board of Education unanimously voted ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

In education and assessment, we use the word “standards” in a number of ways: curriculum standards, standards-based assessments, performance standards. Performance standards—also known as proficiency ...

Real, lasting change seems to come in painfully slow increments. Facts and evidence seem to evaporate from our minds as we meet each day with dedication and resolve and lessons are recognized, but not ...

Students from East Asian countries, in addition to a select group of European countries, outperformed students around the world in mathematics, science and reading at both the fourth and eighth grades ...

Summative assessments gauge student achievement after the completion of learning activities. While many of these are common such as exams, projects and essays, there are a larger variety of ways to ...

The committee’s charge was to develop a set of criteria with which to evaluate NAEP achievement levels. We were asked to address the question: To what extent are the NAEP achievement levels reasonable ...

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been providing policy ...

What is proficiency? Why does it matter? How can we assess it? How does it differ from other kinds of assessment? And what does proficiency assessment tell us that helps to improve learning? David ...

The National Achievement Survey (NAS) to assess the learning achievement of children in government and private schools will be conducted by NCERT in November, Union Education Minister Dharmendra ...

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have concluded plans to conduct the 2022 National Assessment of Learning Achievement in Basic Education ...