Happy students doing formative assessment

Formative Assessment: What is it?

Posted by Jennie Tookoian

How are students doing? Are they picking up the information they should be learning? Teachers who don't want to wait until the end of a unit or semester use various tactics, like formative assessment, to "check in" with students and see how they are progressing. What makes formative assessment stand out? Formative assessment involves the use... Read More

Assessment Webinars Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics for School Leaders – Webinar

Posted by Ileana Betancourt

State test scores don't have to be a mystery. With the right tools and preparation, you can enter the testing period well-informed. District benchmark assessments can provide key insights into student learning and growth over the school year. With interim assessments, you can predict how students will perform on the end-of-year state tests and take... Read More

EOY Assessments for You

Posted by Ileana Betancourt

The school year is coming to an end. Your students have learned a bunch, and you've made it through tons of lessons, lectures, activities, field trips and more. Summer is right around the bend. It's time to think about wrapping up the school year! As the school year comes to a close, maybe it's time... Read More

Integrating Cognitive Rigor with Webb’s Depth of Knowledge

Posted by Ileana Betancourt

Typically, when we think of assessment item difficulty, we associate it with the actual question stem, the length of the questions, and other components coming from the item itself. Webb’s Depth of Knowledge flips the focus to the cognitive aspects the students must exercise to move through an item and adequately address a question. As... Read More

Access NGSS Assessments for Science Instruction

Posted by Ileana Betancourt

Now, when science teachers log into Edulastic and explore the Assessment Library, they'll notice a lot more Next Generation Science Standards content! This month we publicly released new NGSS assessments to give science instructors more support. The new content covers all middle school NGSS standards and half of high school NGSS standards. Additionally, the new NGSS... Read More

NJ School Conquers PARCC with Digital Assessment

Posted by Ileana Betancourt

Two years ago Waterford School District did everything they could to prepare their third grade classes for PARCC assessments. Teachers gave students paper assessments for test practice. Time was designated for students to get comfortable using the computer. They even provided students with a 1-hour tutorial where they would learn about the types of online... Read More

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