Our expert panelists weigh in on education technology to give us their verdict on which approaches to tech-enabled learning will have a major impact, which ones are stagnating and which ones might be better forgotten entirely.
"eMPower Maine," that state's new name for its educational assessments, will be developed by Measured Progress for grades 3-8.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/08/15
Louisiana will be a pioneer in the use of PARCC's new flexible model of assessment. The state's Department of Education recently decided to use content from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers to make up just under half of the content for its summative tests in this school year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/01/15
When the best teachers in the country compare the online assessments built around the Common Core State Standards to prior state assessments, they've agreed that the new tests from PARCC and Smarter Balanced are better. That's the conclusion in a new report issued by the National Network of State Teachers of the Year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/30/15
The states that make up the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) have released test questions from this year's PARCC assessments to allow teachers and parents to see just exactly what makes up the online tests.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/20/15
Even as PARCC has begun offering additional formats for its Common Core state standard-aligned assessments, it has attracted a new member.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/17/15
The Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers will be customizing its online testing offerings to expand its reach into states outside of the consortium.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/12/15
Curriculum Associates has updated its i-Ready reading, language arts and mathematics program in an effort to provide teachers insight into how well their students understand the Common Core State Standards.
For the first time ever, most states will be giving their end-of-year, high-stakes tests in elementary and middle school via technology other than pencil and paper.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/05/15
Now that results are being released for last spring's Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments, state education representatives face the challenge of explaining what the bad news means to their constituents. Some states may choose to stick with their own assessments, which show better results. In other places, leaders are holding tight and educating the public about why their states need to reboot their expectations for student learning.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/29/15