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Assessment Culture: What It Is and Why It Matters

Edsurge

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

It thrives under the guidance of a passionate, skilled educator who is constantly evolving alongside their students. Teachers are the backbone of any thriving learning environment. Nevertheless, just like their students, educators thrive in personalized learning experiences.

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Using the Learner Variability Navigator for Professional Learning

Digital Promise

All of these factors interact to impact a child’s readiness to learn when they come into the classroom. We’ve found in our national survey, Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View Education Priorities and How to Achieve Them , that only half of teachers rely on research to inform their practice.

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How we reached student success with assessment proficiency

eSchool News

We use observations, quick formative assessments, longer summative assessments, and long-term benchmark assessments. The problem is that these assessments come in a variety of ways, depending on where you teach. Many districts utilize pre-built assessments from curricular resource companies. The short answer is no.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . What Are Summative Assessments Vs. Formative Assessments.

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How To Conduct a Staff Needs Assessment That Supports Your Instructional Coaching Program

TeacherCast

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The Staff Needs Assessment is by far one of the most important and at the same time, most stressful part of the process in creating an EdTech Integration Plan for your school district. What is a Needs Assessment? John Wooden.

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Prioritizing The Most Urgent Education Challenges

Digital Promise

Which education challenges are schools and districts prioritizing? In spring 2019, we collected nearly 350 survey responses from stakeholders working in all levels across public schools. The survey also asked respondents how much progress their school or district has made toward addressing each challenge.

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