9.9.13 How Early Intervention is Just Like Flossing (and Why Tiny Victories Are Big) This is the fourth article in a series on early childhood assessment. In this series, I’m exploring the core concepts from a white paper recently published by Dr. Cindy Jiban. You can find the... Read more
8.16.13 Early Childhood Assessment: 3 Points of Consensus This is the third article in a series on Early Childhood Assessment. In this series, I’m exploring the core concepts from a white paper recently published by Dr. Cindy Jiban. You can find the... Read more
8.16.13 Formative assessment: What it is, why you should use it, and how to make it happen As the number of blog posts we’ve written on formative assessment continues to grow, I thought it would be a good idea to create a post that could serve as a general resource, sort of a go-to... Read more
8.14.13 What Percentage of Students Meet their Growth Targets? In NWEA’s norms, about what percentage of students who take MAP assessments typically meet their school year growth goals? This is a tough question to answer, since it’s not something that we... Read more
7.24.13 Early Childhood Assessment: 4 Questions at the Heart of the Debate Earlier this month, I kicked off a series of articles on Early Childhood Assessment, reflecting on some of the core concepts from a white paper recently published by Dr. Cindy... Read more
7.10.13 Early Childhood Assessment: 9 Keys to Effective Practice Recently, we published a paper by Dr. Cindy Jiban, titled Early Childhood Assessment: Implementing Effective Practice. If you are an early childhood educator, specialist or administrator, I highly... Read more
6.12.13 Creating High-Quality Test Items Welcome to the third post in a series of entries about how MAP assessments are aligned to content standards. Previous posts in the series discussed how we ensure test items align to... Read more
6.10.13 The Return on Early Childhood Education Investment (The Benefits of Investing in Other People’s Children) With the President’s plans for universal Pre-K defined, the next step is state implementation. While the states can qualify for funding under the President’s plan by meeting certain... Read more
6.3.13 The Importance of Teacher Collaboration in School and Student Performance If you’re a teacher and have been at it for some time I’m sure you appreciate the opportunity to chat with peers about their classroom dynamic; what’s working for them and perhaps more... Read more
5.31.13 The Myths of Early Learning and One Simple Truth I’ve been following a blog series at Next Generation titled Top 6 Myths About Early Education. The author Reynaldo Fuentes does a great job of laying down myths that opponents of President... Read more
