10.7.13 Formative Assessment – Revisiting the Exit Ticket It gives me great joy to see teachers so passionate about formative assessment and its ability to measure their students’ progress that they blog about it. Kimberlee Fulbright recently shared a... 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
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
4.22.13 Aligning the MAP Assessment to Content Standards As assessment data is increasingly used in high stakes evaluations, a major area of discussion is the alignment between the assessment and the responsibility to teach content in accordance with the... Read more
4.19.13 Authentic Learning Series: 13 At-Home Numeracy Ideas for Early Childhood This is the fourth and final article in our authentic learning series. In the first two articles, we discussed authentic learning ideas for the classroom (for early literacy and numeracy) and in the... Read more
4.12.13 Authentic Learning Series: 13 At-Home Literacy Ideas for Early Childhood This is the third of four articles in a series about incorporating authentic learning and authentic assessment in both the classroom setting and at home. In our first two articles, we focused on... Read more
3.28.13 Authentic Learning Series: 15 Classroom Literacy Ideas for Early Childhood Prevention of literacy and numeracy skill gaps in early childhood is a high priority for parents, teachers and educational leaders. To focus on this priority, there are a myriad ways in which we can... Read more
2.20.13 Early Math in the Common Core State Standards: Balance at New Heights As kindergartens across the country begin to transition to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, the aim for achievement gains is high. However, standards don’t take children places... Read more
1.30.13 Parental Involvement and Early Learning Success Nikkie Zanevsky recently posted a blog over at the SPARK Community entitled 3 Practical Strategies for Improving Parent Involvement in Education. If you haven’t read it yet you should check it... Read more
10.15.12 Formative Assessment Beyond English and Math Skills In a recent Grunwald Associates study on formative assessment perceptions one of the areas we looked into was what subject areas parents and educators thought was important to measure. What we... Read more
9.12.12 Formative Assessment vs. Summative Assessment Results: Timing Matters We won’t spend much time defining what formative assessment is or what summative assessment is, since we’ve done that in a previous blog. In short, formative assessment are ongoing frequent... Read more
9.26.11 What Does Regression to the Mean Mean? We’ve been encouraged by the attention received thus far from journalists, bloggers, and the general public about our study, “Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top... Read more