One of the two big groups of states that are designing tests for the Common Core State Standards has pared back its plans to produce diagnostic and formative assessment tools because it had to use ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Cognitive diagnostic assessment and modelling represents an evolving frontier in educational measurement by providing detailed profiles of individuals’ mastery of specific skills and knowledge ...

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) recently approved Curriculum Associates' i-Ready Diagnostic for its Adoption List of Formative ...

Imagine+ Screener (PreK–3) – A game-powered tool that identifies students at risk for dyslexia and reading challenges in under 20 minutes Imagine+ Diagnostic (K–12) – A computer-adaptive assessment ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...

Assessment and feedback are essential activities in student learning and there are many e-learning tools available to assist staff in this area. Here we focus mainly on tools for assessment and ...

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