/performance-assessment Performance Assessment en-US 2021 (c) Education Week Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:19:44 GMT /events/webinar/show-what-you-know-rethinking-assessment-in-stem Discover innovative ways to assess student learning. Join our webinar on performance-based assessments. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:19:44 GMT /events/webinar/show-what-you-know-rethinking-assessment-in-stem /teaching-learning/a-districts-experiment-what-happens-when-schools-do-less-testing/2024/10 Los Angeles Unified will excuse some schools from periodic assessments. Supporters hope it will inspire new ways to measure learning. Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:50:22 GMT /teaching-learning/a-districts-experiment-what-happens-when-schools-do-less-testing/2024/10 /technology/ai-may-be-coming-for-standardized-testing/2024/03 An international test may offer clues on how AI can help create better assessments. Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:32:27 GMT /technology/ai-may-be-coming-for-standardized-testing/2024/03 /teaching-learning/opinion-q-a-collections-assessment/2021/08 Scores of educators share commentaries on the use of assessments in schools. Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:06:48 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-q-a-collections-assessment/2021/08 /teaching-learning/opinion-alternatives-to-standardized-tests-during-a-pandemic-year/2021/03 Three educators suggest alternatives to federally mandated standardized testing during this year undercut by COVID-19. Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:24:18 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-alternatives-to-standardized-tests-during-a-pandemic-year/2021/03 /teaching-learning/video-k-12-performance-assessment-terms-explained/2019/02 Interest is growing in assessing students’ learning by having them show what they can do with what they know. But educators often disagree about what terms like performance assessment and project-based learning really mean in the classroom. In an effort to clear up some of the confusion, Education Week writers developed definitions for six performance-assessment related terms, including proficiency-based learning, project-based learning, standards-based grading, and portfolios. See the results in this animated glossary. Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:13:07 GMT /teaching-learning/video-k-12-performance-assessment-terms-explained/2019/02 /events/online-summit/testing-for-real-world-performance Education Week offers a big-picture look at the current state of performance assessment and pinpoints some best practices. Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:55:18 GMT /events/online-summit/testing-for-real-world-performance /teaching-learning/projects-portfolios-and-performance-assessments Alternatives to traditional testing aren’t new to schools but interest in them is resurging. What lessons did educators learn from the last go-around with performance measurement? What’s new now? Wed, 06 Feb 2019 05:00:00 GMT /teaching-learning/projects-portfolios-and-performance-assessments /teaching-learning/exploring-ways-to-say-so-long-to-traditional-letter-grades/2019/02 Some teachers are ditching grades or using "no zero" policies to keep students more focused on learning and less intent on grade-grubbing. Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:56:11 GMT /teaching-learning/exploring-ways-to-say-so-long-to-traditional-letter-grades/2019/02 /teaching-learning/can-capstone-projects-deepen-learning-for-high-school-seniors/2019/02 Educators in Oakland, Calif., say the yearlong graduation projects are helping students master oral, writing, and research skills that will serve them well for whatever comes next. Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:51:44 GMT /teaching-learning/can-capstone-projects-deepen-learning-for-high-school-seniors/2019/02 /teaching-learning/what-is-performance-assessment/2019/02 Here's a handy glossary on terms like project-based learning, competency-based learning, and standards-based grading. Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:51:05 GMT /teaching-learning/what-is-performance-assessment/2019/02 /teaching-learning/performance-assessment-4-best-practices/2019/02 This isn't the first time states and schools have turned to projects, portfolios, exhibitions, and essays to measure students' learning. Here are lessons from the last go-around. Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:49:39 GMT /teaching-learning/performance-assessment-4-best-practices/2019/02 /teaching-learning/video-experience-education-weeks-summit-on-testing-for-real-world-performance/2019/01 Assistant Managing Editor Debra Viadero talks about the latest turn in education toward performance-based assessment and invites educators to the “Testing for Real-World Performance” summit on Tuesday, February 19, at 1 p.m. In this online event, Education Week journalists and guests will staff online “discussion rooms” on a host of topics, including: the problems and pitfalls of performance-based testing measures, ways to assess group work, alternatives to traditional grades, how some college admissions offices weigh performance-based measures, and video game-based formative assessments for elementary schools. You will get a unique opportunity to interact directly with the writers and experts who helped shape coverage of our new special report on performance assessment. After the discussions, watch writers and editors sum up the discussion in a series of livestreamed interviews. Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:24:26 GMT /teaching-learning/video-experience-education-weeks-summit-on-testing-for-real-world-performance/2019/01 /teaching-learning/new-tools-help-track-common-core-learning/2015/11 PARCC and Smarter Balanced have formative assessments that enable teachers to see if students 'get it' long before the tests. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/new-tools-help-track-common-core-learning/2015/11 /teaching-learning/students-self-assess-their-way-to-learning/2015/11 In a growing number of schools, student self-assessments are just another part of the learning process. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/students-self-assess-their-way-to-learning/2015/11 /teaching-learning/learning-progressions-maps-to-personalized-teaching/2015/11 In Denver and elsewhere, learning progressions offer one tool teachers can use in the formative-assessment process. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/learning-progressions-maps-to-personalized-teaching/2015/11 /teaching-learning/arizona-leans-in-on-formative-assessment/2015/11 In the Grand Canyon State, teachers are getting a leg up in their efforts to improve the on-the-spot assessments and instructional decisions they make in the classroom. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/arizona-leans-in-on-formative-assessment/2015/11 /teaching-learning/technology-fed-growth-in-formative-assessment/2015/11 Education-technology tools have made it easier for teachers to keep tabs on students' understanding. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/technology-fed-growth-in-formative-assessment/2015/11 /teaching-learning/searching-for-clarity-on-formative-assessment/2015/11 Ask five teachers what formative assessment is and you're likely to get five different definitions. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/searching-for-clarity-on-formative-assessment/2015/11 /teaching-learning/q-a-misconceptions-about-formative-assessment/2015/11 Richard J. Stiggins, an advocate of classroom assessments in the service of learning, identifies misconceptions about formative assessment. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/q-a-misconceptions-about-formative-assessment/2015/11 /teaching-learning/should-formative-assessments-be-graded/2015/11 Experts warn against grading formative assessments, but teachers sometimes worry that students won't take the tasks seriously any other way. Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:40:58 GMT /teaching-learning/should-formative-assessments-be-graded/2015/11 /policy-politics/opinion-we-arent-using-assessments-correctly/2015/10 Testing data should be used as a tool to enhance instruction and learning for teachers and students, writes John Hattie. Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:38:46 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-we-arent-using-assessments-correctly/2015/10 /teaching-learning/authentic-assessment-shapes-learning-at-a-new-york-city-high-school/2015/07 We profile a high school where students have to explain and defend their ideas in major year-long projects in order to earn their diplomas. Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:40:54 GMT /teaching-learning/authentic-assessment-shapes-learning-at-a-new-york-city-high-school/2015/07 /teaching-learning/opinion-were-racing-through-k-12-education/2015/03 Learning takes time, so rushing children to finish assignments is not the answer, writes speech-language pathologist Rebecca Givens Rolland. Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:36:34 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-were-racing-through-k-12-education/2015/03 /teaching-learning/a-lens-on-parcc-field-testing/2014/05 Boston-based photographer Gretchen Ertl documented how the Burlington, Mass., school district was preparing for PARCC field-testing. Thu, 08 May 2014 19:48:44 GMT /teaching-learning/a-lens-on-parcc-field-testing/2014/05 /teaching-learning/vision-reality-collide-in-common-core-tests/2014/04 Political, technical, and financial factors have constrained some of the original, and more ambitious, plans for the assessments being developed by two state coalitions. Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:03:33 GMT /teaching-learning/vision-reality-collide-in-common-core-tests/2014/04 /teaching-learning/teachers-learn-to-judge-formative-testing-tools/2014/03 Educators gathered recently for training on how to size up instructional resources for possible inclusion in a digital library that a common-core testing consortium is developing. Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:40:04 GMT /teaching-learning/teachers-learn-to-judge-formative-testing-tools/2014/03 /teaching-learning/new-directions-in-assessment Addressing an area of both frustration and possibility for many teachers, this online story package explores new developments and trends in the practice of testing and assessment in schools. The stories focus on initiatives designed to link assessment more closely with classroom learning and instruction and thus provide integral solutions for teachers. Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:00:00 GMT /teaching-learning/new-directions-in-assessment /teaching-learning/performance-assessment-re-emerging-in-schools/2014/03 Looking for better ways to measure the "deeper learning" goals of the common standards, schools are increasingly turning to formalized performance tasks. Wed, 05 Mar 2014 04:37:27 GMT /teaching-learning/performance-assessment-re-emerging-in-schools/2014/03