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The switch to standards-based grading increases specificity and accuracy: focusing on performance rather than progress and correctness rather than process. The standards-based mindset…
Forefront Education commissioned an external review of the Universal Screeners for Number Sense (USNS) by a team of researchers at Bowling Green State…
Do teachers in your district think of data as a four-letter word? That’s because so much of the data that they are asked…
"He is a C student." "She's bad at math." "These students are failing." Traditional grading systems rank students and turn grades into labels.…
If your school or district embraces a standards-based grading system, your staff has already done much of the hard work of changing…
Lenses are conceptual frameworks to organize ideas, skills, concepts, and developmental milestones. They provide educators with shared perspectives on expectations and outcomes, and…
Every district, school, and classroom teacher has to develop ways to understand student learning. In the wake of the pandemic, assessment needs are…
Overall performance levels can be helpful, when used well. When there are repeated assessments, overall performance can help teachers quickly and easily understand…
These two and a half years of learning through the pandemic have impacted student learning. They have also revealed many of the inequities…
6 key components to help you evaluate assessments and know the difference Not all assessments are equal. There are high-quality assessments. There are…
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