Curriculum & Assessment Resources
Resources and tools to keep district leaders up-to-date on best practices, lessons learned and emerging trends in curriculum and assessment.
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January 01, 2017
At the Speed of Teaching: Data’s New FrontierType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentYes, big data has its place, but medium and small data will inform classroom instruction more usefully for educators and students. -
December 01, 2016
Visible Progress for Personalized LearningType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentGrowing the comfort level for schools that give students responsibility for their own learning. -
December 01, 2016
A Comparison of Higher-Order Thinking Between the Common Core State Standards and the 2009 New Jersey Content Standards in High SchoolType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentThe creators and supporters of the Common Core State Standards claim that the Standards require greater emphasis on higher-order thinking than previous state standards in mathematics and English language arts. -
December 01, 2016
The Second Act of FlippingType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentTransitioning the classroom from direct instruction and worksheets to facilitation and supervised practice is Stage 1. Reinventing class time is the challenge of Stage 2. -
December 01, 2016
Persuading the StaffType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentThe administrator of one of the nation's first "flipped" schools learned from his failures when he attempted to persuade teachers to adopt a totally new approach to instruction. -
August 01, 2016
Resisting Test-Based Grade RetentionType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentThe authors discovered how educators in a Georgia public school quietly undermined a state policy's harmful effects on students. -
August 01, 2016
Why Capable Students Fail in 9th GradeType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentA district-level study identifies the challenges in the transition to high school and sparks some new support measures. -
August 01, 2016
How Do You Disagree With Personalized Attention?Type:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentSchools that are part of AASA’s personalized learning cohort differ radically from the majority of public schools today. -
June 01, 2016
Length of the School Day and Its Influence on New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment ScoresType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentThis paper presents results from an examination of the relationships between high school (HS) school day length and 2011 New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) Math and Language Arts Literacy test results. -
June 01, 2016
The Influence of the Length of the School Day on the Percentage of Proficient and Advanced Proficient Scores on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for Grades 6, 7, and 8Type:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentThe study used over 600 public schools for each grade level/subject combination. For all grade level/subject combinations, socioeconomic status (SES) by far had the largest predictive contribution to the dependent variable compared to the other predictor variables. -
May 01, 2016
The Guilt of Instructional LeadershipType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentWhy an artificial dichotomy says good district managers can't be influential in the classroom. -
May 01, 2016
The Window of AssignmentsType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentAn analysis of work assigned to students discovers low-level demands on those with the greatest needs for deep thinking -
April 01, 2016
Seizing the Moment for Better AssessmentType:Article Topics: College- Career- and Life-Readiness, Curriculum & AssessmentThe reauthorization of federal law, while short of what’s needed, united education groups in purpose. -
April 01, 2016
Alternative Measures of IntelligenceType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentFive reasons why IQ tests have no value in K-12 schooling … and never did -
March 01, 2016
The Leveling Effect of Our 1:1 InitiativeType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentA rural Missouri superintendent's take on his district's 1:1 initiative for conquering a technology gap. -
March 01, 2016
Rise of the Open CurriculumType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentSmall districts are discovering rich instructional resources when staff adapt free online lessons as textbook alternatives. -
January 01, 2016
Leadership and Return on InvestmentType:Article Topics: Curriculum & Assessment, District & School OperationsAn AASA partner that documents the relationships between program costs and quality. -
January 01, 2016
The Pseudo-Analytics of Year-End DataType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentHow clumsy state and federal policies blunt the transformative potential of data in education -
November 01, 2015
What Qualifies as a Personalized Learning Experience?Type:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentThe district's program in Meriden, Conn., lends greater student choice, voice and real-world learning at the secondary school level. -
November 01, 2015
Personalized Education on the Systems LevelType:Article Topics: Curriculum & AssessmentA districtwide transformation for customizing student learning involves more than a schedule adjustment or a new grading scheme. There are also policies, differentiating staffing and even the structure of school facilities to be considered.
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