The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of
assessment beyond test scores.
Overview The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of
assessment beyond test scores.
Not exact matches
Beyond Standardized
Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to
Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes
testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to
testing was narrowing student
assessment down to a few
scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.
By expanding the notion of student success, and moving it
beyond a metric governed by
test scores, authentic
assessment puts the emphasis on student understanding.
To generate detailed
scoring and «
Beyond Scores» insights on student performance, Socrato's rules - based,
test scoring, performance, and diagnostic
assessment engine learns over time about
tests and gets smarter.
more clearly acknowledges that evidence of student learning must extend
beyond standardized
test scores to include other measures, such as demonstration of growth over time, parental feedback, performance on formative
assessments, and demonstrations of engagement and self - efficacy; and
Making the
assessments multidimensional (not relying exclusively on
test scores), focusing on potential and not just performance, and looking at subjects
beyond just reading and math could all prove beneficial.
How do we measure success in a way that goes
beyond test scores and academic
assessments and focuses on the realization of human potential?