A commenter named Carol recently raised a few questions that I felt warranted a more in-depth response. I am really enjoying diving into this stuff... but I can't wrap my mind around the homework. How is it that you "require" them to do their...

When discussing formative assessment and my current standards-based grading system with colleagues, various aspects of it seem like a lot of "work" (such as inputting multiple scores into the grade book rather than just a single summative assessment...

A science teacher wandered into my room yesterday after school.  In addition to many hallway and after school conversations with her, I have also passed on several articles related to standards-based grading and formative assessment techniques. ...

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague today that followed-up a heated discussion that took place yesterday among several staff members over lunch in the teachers' lounge.  Yesterday's ongoing question was, "Do our grading practices promote...

Yesterday, I observed my student teacher's statistics lesson on confidence intervals using a t-distribution.  We both agreed that the lesson went fairly well and without a doubt emphasized the main ideas needed to help students understand the day's...