Part of preparing students for the real world is teaching them to collaborate and problem-solve while working with others in small groups. My classroom model includes a lot of group work where ...

A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that formative assessment—that is, ongoing, classroom-based assessment done by the teacher—can help improve students’ writing ...

In my time as a math educator, I have yet to encounter a more compelling vision that has the same potential to reinvigorate project based math across the country.

The classroom assessment procedures of 36 teachers in grades 2 to 12 were studied in depth to determine the extent to which they measure students' higher order thinking skills in mathematics, science, ...

Christopher B. Swanson, David Lee Stevenson, Standards-Based Reform in Practice: Evidence on State Policy and Classroom Instruction from the NAEP State Assessments, Educational Evaluation and Policy ...