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Testing. Teaching. Learning?


ETS | Global education and talent solutions

Designed for educators, this assessment measures the knowledge and skills you'll need as you prepare for the classroom. A teacher stands at the front of her ...

3 Ways to Use Testing as a Learning Tool (Opinion) - Education Week

Testing can be a tremendous tool for learning. What follows are three ways to rethink and redo testing.

Understanding different types of tests in education

There are various types of tests in education, from subjective, objective, summative, and formative to diagnostic tests. These tests help gauge ...

Testing, teaching, learning: who is in charge? - Taylor & Francis Online

School principals use students' test scores as a component of teacher evaluation. School district leaders look to student test scores to judge the effectiveness ...

Formative and Summative Assessments

Formative Assessment Ideally, formative assessment strategies improve teaching and learning simultaneously. Instructors can help students grow as learners ...

3 Ways to Help Students Learn From Their Tests - Edutopia

1. Instant Replay Encourage students to do a brain dump right after a test, capturing their ideas, questions, and surprises.

Problems with the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers

There are also good reasons to be concerned about claims that measuring teachers' effectiveness largely by student test scores will lead to improved student ...

Formative and Summative Assessment - Northern Illinois University

More specifically, assessment is the ways instructors gather data about their teaching and their students' learning (Hanna & Dettmer, 2004). The data provide a ...

How Do I Create Tests for my Students? | TLPDC Teaching Resources

One of the most important steps of test composition is to revisit your overall goals and objectives for the course and to determine which goals you intend to ...

The Difference Between Testing and Teaching - CTL

We are increasingly blurring the lines between instruction (teaching and learning) and assessment of instruction (tests to measure teaching and learning).

Teaching to the Test? - ASCD

The purpose of most educational testing is to allow teachers ... Indeed, after learning that teaching directly toward test items ...

The impact of high-stakes testing on the teaching and learning ...

(2006) with teachers at 20 schools revealed that high-stakes testing affected the teaching process, i.e. teachers engaged in test- oriented ...

Does teaching to the test improve student learning? - ScienceDirect

We find that test-specific classwork and practice tests with specific test items tend to have little or negative impacts on curriculum specific or general ...

Educator Testing - Certification - Texas Education Agency

Pearson - Texas Educator Certification Examination Program 1-800-877-4599. Mask requirements will be stated in your appointment reminder email, or you may call ...

Authentic Assessment - Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Authentic Assessment · is realistic. · requires judgment and innovation. · asks the student to “do” the subject. · replicates or simulates the contexts in which ...

Will ending standardized tests improve teaching, learning?

Florida would be the first state to implement progress monitoring for students at three points each year and end annual testing at the conclusion of the school ...

Can New Tests Lead to Better Teaching and Deeper Learning?

Research suggests that testing can encourage teachers to focus on meeting students' needs by individualizing instruction for all students.

Ambitious Teaching and Equitable Assessment

Formative assessment can occur as part of learning activities, with both planned-for and in-the-moment questions designed to elicit student thinking. To further ...

The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not ...

We suggest that instructors use frequent, low-stakes, cumulative exams and a variety of test formats (eg, cued recall, multiple-choice, and true/false)

6. Teachers' Testing Knowledge, Skills, and Practices

knowing little about the nature and quality of teacher-made tests, about how these tests are used within the classroom teaching-learning process, and about the ...


The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

Book by Stephen Krashen