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Feed Up, Back, Forward Feedback, a complex and powerful resource for teachers, is characterized by three distinct components, say authors Fisher and Frey: Feed Up, or establishing clear purpose and learning goals Feedback, or ongoing response to student work Feed...

Why Every Student Needs Critical Friends Every student needs critical friends--peer critiques transform the classroom into an authentic audience, students tailor their work in consideration of wider array of feedback, and student engagement goes up because they realize their perspectives...

The Quest for Quality Assessment quality and balance determine how reliable and useful the data collected will be, say authors Chappuis, Chappuis, and Stiggins in "The Quest for Quality." Using misinformation defeats the purpose of bringing in more results to...

Special Topic: The Problem with Performance Pay Performance pay requires districts to develop a new definition of performance based on our true goals for students and teachers, argues Donald Gratz in "The Problem with Performance Pay." Teacher performance pay based...

From Test Takers to Test Makers Norwegian educator Kari Smith ("From Test Takers to Test Makers") found that her students who were good at retaining factual knowledge and answering what and when questions often did well on tests but did...

The Next Generation of Testing The history of wide-scale, school-based assessment practices has been pretty circular: 1938 to late 1980s: Multiple-choice tests that measure only part of the skills and knowledge outlined by standards and tell us little about helping...

Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger's recent launch of an online education video library got a lot of attention last week. WatchKnow.org houses thousands of educational videos for youth ages 3-18, as well as hundreds of videos for teachers and parents. Site...

As we consider how best to use multiple measures of assessment to determine the success of our schools, it's instructive to look back at the dawn of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which in its infancy used a...

The Many Meanings of "Multiple Measures" Is anything that measures higher-order thinking a "multiple measure"? What about more than one opportunity to take the same exit exam--Is that a "multiple measure"? From how state and federal policy define and apply...

EdWeek's Debra Viadero has a great new piece profiling the work of by Harvard University researcher Nancy E. Hill. Hill writes about how schools can better guide parents in supporting the scholarship of their adolescent or middle school-aged children. Hill's...

Some of the same qualities that make a great school counselor—humor, insight, and empathy—also make a great blogger. In Notes from the School Psychologist, clinical psychiatrist Rebecca Branstetter writes about everything from student motivation to parenting with verve, intelligence, and...

Given the uncivil discourse that's dominated most of the health care reform debate, should those of us who place children at the center of our decision making approach the coming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with...