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Assessment

EL 24 – Rubrics
EL 23 – Re-assessments
EL 22 – Teacher Feedback
AASA 22 – Feedback for Teachers
ASCD Express 21 – Let’s Begin with Success
AASA 20 – The Dark Side of Assessment Literacy
EL 18 – Does Pre- Assessment Work?
EL 16 – Pre-Assessment: Promises & Cautions
Ed Update 15 – Why Glorify Failure to Enhance Success?
EL 07 – The Rest of the Story
EL 05 – Mapping the Road to Proficiency
EL 03 – How Classroom Assessments Improve Learning
NASCD 00 –  Deciding What’s Important to Learn

Grading & Reporting

EL 24 – The Unwinnable Battle Over Minimum Grades
PDK 24 – Consistency
PDK 22 – Grades as Feedback
TIP 22 – Is Standards-Based Grading Effective?
NASSP 21 – Learning from Failures
SA 21 – Undoing Traditions of Grading & Reporting
EL 20 – Breaking Up the Grade
NASSP 20 – Tracking HS Students’ Transition to College
AE:PPP 20 – Variation in Grading Criteria in American College and University Courses
EL 19 – The Forgotten Element of Instructional Leadership: Grading
PDK 19 – Grades versus comments: Research on student feedback
AE:PPP 18 – Exploring the Factors Teachers Consider in Determining Students’ Grades
EL 16 – Why You Should Trust Your Judgment
RER 16 –  Research on Grading
PDK 15 – Standards-Based Grading and Reporting Will Improve Education
PDK 14 – Class Rank Weighs Down True Learning
UpFront 14 – Should Schools Have Valedictorians?
EL 13 – The Case Against Percentage Grades
EL 11 – Five Obstacles to Grading Reform
PDK 11 – Grades That Mean Something
PDK 06 – Making High School Grades Meaningful
PL 04 – 0 Alternatives
PDK 04 – The Communication Challenge of Standards-Based Reporting
PDK 02 – Computerized Gradebooks

Mastery Learning


IESBS 15 – Mastery Learning
EL 13 – In Search of a Useful Definition of Mastery
CH 11 – RTI and Mastery Learning
EL 10 – Lessons of Mastery Learning
SA 09 – Getting Curriculum Reform Right
JAA 07 – Revisiting Blooms Learning for Mastery
NASSP 05 – A Historical Perspective on Closing the Achievement Gap

Professional Learning

LP 24 – Beyond the Satisfaction Survey
EL 21 – The Past and Future of Teacher Efficacy
EL 21 PD with Staying Power
LP 20 – Flip the Script on Change
NASSP 19 – Interpreting Average Effect Sizes: Never a Center Without a Spread
LP 17 – Where Do You Want to Get To?
LPP 16 – Gauge Impact with Five Levels of Data

EL 14 – Planning Professional Learning
LP 12 – The Rules of Evidence
PDK 09 – What Works in Professional Development?
LPP 05 – Taking a Second Look
PDK 03 – What Makes Professional Development Effective?
EL 02 – Evaluating Professional Development
T&T 02 – Professional Development & Teacher Change

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