Some California educators say the state’s students with the most severe cognitive disabilities will not have the same opportunity this spring to have their learning assessed as other students taking ...

The Department of Education has issued final regulations clarifying how to test students with the most severe cognitive disabilities and include those results in schools’ performance ratings. “Title I ...

Q: What do “alternative assessments” mean? When we want to know what students know, we give them a test or a quiz. However, these forms of testing don’t always reflect the application of the skills ...

California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select alternatives in cases where these tests are not “viable” to ...

Testing for students in special education got a lot air time—little of it resulting in real action yet—during Thursday morning’s discussion by a panel of negotiators trying to work out rules on ...

Only a small percentage of students are supposed to take alternate assessments intended for those with the most significant cognitive disabilities, but new evidence suggests that states are routinely ...

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale referred to my Sept. 22 column on inflated tests scores as “inaccurate” and “unsubstantiated” in his Sept. 27 letter to the editor (“Column on ...

Are you ready to transform assessment in your course(s)? Join us in this hyflex/bimodal series where we move beyond traditional grading systems to embrace alternative assessment modalities that ...