Kira, the developer of the first AI-native Operating System for Education, and Anthropic, the AI safety company and maker of Claude, announced an integration that sets a new standard for how AI is ...

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Homework likely will be graded during the 2026-27 school year and no classes will have a 100/0 summative/formative split for the final grade, according to Hinsdale Central Principal Bill Walsh. “I ...

In the 1900s, many educators believed that if you built a solid lesson and taught it efficiently, learning followed: One and done, no need for reteaching. But in 1998, a seminal paper by Paul Black ...

Teaching approaches have always been a topic of ongoing discussion in education and continue to evolve over time. Among these approaches, formative assessment has gained increasing attention lately as ...

There is a heated debate right now around AI and assessment. This is understandable given that AI’s language and reasoning capabilities complicate our ability to genuinely assess student understanding ...

Formative assessment is one of the most important aspects of instruction—it’s how we celebrate student learning and growth, and how we help uncover learning needs to point students in the right ...

Formative assessment is widely recognised as a vital tool for improving student performance. However, how formative assessment effectively influences academic performance remains unclear. This study ...

What is summative assessment data used for, how can we ensure it is purposeful, valid, and reliable, and how can school leaders use it to inform school improvement and to improve student outcomes?

In the end, the most effective checks for understanding are less about tools and more about habits. They require us to slow ...

ABSTRACT: International educational program evaluation of national teacher inservice program. After the three-year life of the Afghanistan Teacher Directorate implementation, this UNICEF-funded effort ...