8.16.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA Dylan Wiliam & The 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning Dylan Wiliam’s new book, Embedded Formative Assessment, is filled with a number of insights culled from his 35 years of experience in education. The foundation of the book highlights the... Read more
6.27.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA Formative Assessment Infographic – What Parents and Educators Want “If you can both listen to children and accept their answers not as things to just be judged right or wrong but as pieces of information which may reveal what the child is thinking, you will have... Read more
6.20.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA Dylan Wiliam and Putting Formative Assessment to Work "Every teacher needs to be getting better…better at something that will make a difference to their students…" Those are the words of Dylan Wiliam, creator of the Keeping Learning on Track®... Read more
6.15.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA The Importance of Setting Classroom and Student Expectations At some point, we’ve all been there; in a class or course, where after several sessions it’s still unclear what is expected and how you’ll be graded. Well, both quantitative and qualitative... Read more
5.31.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA Do you believe that all teachers can get even better at teaching that drives student learning? As Dylan Wiliam explains in this video, as a starting point, teachers first need to believe that they can get better by changing some of their teaching practices. Once they believe this, from there... Read more
5.16.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA Self-Regulation of Learning Leads to Student Performance Improvement For students to become actively engaged with the learning process they need guidelines and opportunities to learn and engage in self-assessment. A program like Keeping Learning on Track can provide... Read more
4.24.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA Formative Assessment Strategies – Teacher Learning Communities for Educational Collaboration There are many definitions of formative assessment floating around that can all be classified as correct, and our own international formative assessment expert, Dylan Wiliam, offers his summation... Read more
4.14.12 Kelly Goodrich, NWEA What are the New Standards of College and Career Readiness? What are the skills that all students need to prepare for career and college? We believe that it’s more than being able to give the right answer to specific questions, but rather to make the right... Read more
4.2.12 Beth Tarasawa, NWEA New NCAA Eligibility Rules Force Universities to Up Their Academic Game As March Madness draws to a close, basketball fans have more to worry about than just bracket busters in upcoming years. Several tournament teams will need to ratchet up their athletes’ academic... Read more
9.26.11 Michael Dahlin, NWEA 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
