I write in response to an article in your Quality Counts report titled “Offered Chance to Craft Tests, States Moving With Caution ” (Jan. 4, 2017), which addresses the most significant issue leading ...

Two Westchester high schools will participate in a state pilot program aimed at helping schools shift toward performance-based assessments, which evaluate what students know by having them perform ...

The New York State Department of Education is launching a pilot program to study new ways to change high school diploma requirements including using performance-based assessments instead of Regents ...

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

Jaclyn Midgette has no shortage of adjectives to describe a new performance-based licensing test she took as an undergraduate teacher-candidate at East Carolina University: stressful, drawn out, and ...

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA), enacted by Congress in 1998, requires states to establish a comprehensive accountability system for adult education programs. The WIA mandates that states must ...

New York state is piloting a new education program ahead of a statewide initiative called NY Inspires. The program shifts from traditional testing to performance-based learning to better prepare ...

The discussion during the workshop highlighted a number of key challenges that must be addressed when performance assessments are used for accountability in the federal adult education system: (1) ...