Assessment

Passing teacher certification tests is a basic requirement for teacher licensure in most states. The test results are used to measure aspiring teachers’ knowledge and skills to ensure they are [...]

A key piece of curriculum in the TeacherReady® Online Certification Program is Using Assessment Data. What makes this specific portion of the online teaching certification process so important? [...]

Students Emotionally Experience Assessments Recently, Who’s Engaged? author Dr. Janet Pilcher was interviewed on The Daily Brew, a show on Pensacola’s BlabTV. In the interview, Dr. [...]

Great teachers reflect on their work to assess what has been successful and what has not. Successful teachers are steadily asking themselves and their students: What’s working well? Are [...]

In performance-driven classrooms, teachers constantly reflect on how well their students are learning. They collect and analyze information about student learning, to use in focused conversations [...]

Effective Teacher GPA The Effective Teacher GPA is a great tool for teachers to use to help measure teaching effectiveness in the classroom. As a teacher, how well do you think you generally [...]

Why Give Feedback and Use Formative Assessment? When you provide feedback to your students in creative and fun ways, they are more likely to succeed.             D. Royce Sadler, a Professor [...]

In her book Who’s Engaged? Dr. Janet Pilcher writes, here is what we know. Students emotionally experience assessments (p. 35). What does this mean for teachers and parents? We are responsible [...]

Using Assessment Data in the Classroom. As teachers, we have so many tools at our disposal that it can become overwhelming to sort through all the items in the toolbox and select the one that [...]

As teachers and leaders we want to move our low performing students to middle- and high-performing and move middle-performers to high performers. To do this we focus on consistent feedback and [...]