11.28.13 Using the Percentage of Students Meeting or Exceeding Their Growth Projections as an Evaluation Tool Of all of the statistics provided by NWEA in our series of reports, perhaps the easiest to understand and the most widely used is the percentage of students in a classroom, grade-level, or school who... Read more
11.25.13 Five Characteristics of Quality Educational Assessments – Part Four This is our final blog post in the series that has broken down the five characteristics of quality educational assessments. Our first blog post highlighted the need for content validity and our... Read more
11.11.13 Five Characteristics of Quality Educational Assessments – Part Three Assessment Literacy involves understanding how assessments are made, what type of assessments answer what questions, and how the data from assessments can be used to help teachers, students, parents,... Read more
11.6.13 Five characteristics of quality educational assessments: Part two Assessment designers strive to create assessments that show a high degree of fidelity to the following five traits: 1. Content validity2. Reliability3. Fairness4. ... Read more
11.4.13 The 30 Million Word Difference For decades, education researchers have found that children from lower-income and less-educated parents typically enter kindergarten with limited language skills compared to their more privileged... Read more
11.1.13 Five characteristics of quality educational assessments: Part one Assessment literacy involves understanding how assessments are made, what type of assessments answer what questions, and how the data from assessments can be used to help teachers, students,... Read more