Teacher involvement in the design, use, and scoring of performance assessments has the potential to powerfully link instruction, assessment, student learning, and teacher professional development.

Commercially prepared tests often fail to provide teachers with timely, useful, or actionable data to drive student improvement. In contrast, assessments designed by classroom teachers can better ...

A controversial bill that would have eliminated teaching performance assessments — the last licensure test California teacher candidates are required to take — has been dramatically revised under ...

But many don't know it's there. A controversial bill that would have eliminated teaching performance assessments — the last licensure test California teacher candidates are required to take — has been ...

Senate Bill 1263, sponsored by the California Teachers Association, would do away with teaching performance assessments (TPA), which require teachers to demonstrate competence via video clips of ...

Teachers need more support to move testing from a “necessary evil” to a classroom tool, experts say. While summative assessments—like unit quizzes or annual state tests—are used for ...

Like it or not, assessments are an important part of the learning process. Whether they are teacher-developed classroom tests or state-mandated, year-end accountability exams, assessments allow ...

This week's question then is: What are the implications of the principle for value-added teacher assessment: the educational reform proposal so beloved of luminaries from Barack Obama to Bill Gates?

The UK government recently cancelled GCSE and A-level exams. Instead, for this year only, teacher assessments will replace exam grades. These teacher assessments will be based on frequent low ...

The system was eventually scrapped and teachers allowed to award grades based on assessment of their pupils’ abilities – a system which will now continue for a second year. Delivering the ...

A controversial bill that would have eliminated teaching performance assessments — the last licensure test California teacher candidates are required to take — has been dramatically revised ...