Of the 150 influences on achievement John Hattie notes in Visible Learning for Teachers, feedback ranks tenth…
Building assessment into our daily and weekly plans allows us to collect data that informs…
An assessment map is a tool to help with big-picture planning…
True calibration doesn’t happen in one planning period, and it doesn’t happen in isolation…
Teacher collaboration is an essential tool in working toward equitable assessment across a school or district.
Most of the time when we hear the term “validity” with respect to assessment, it’s coupled with the term “reliability”.
Have you ever read through a stack of student assessments and realized that one or more of the questions…
Many of us know from years of studying backward design and turning…
It can be challenging to plan for large groups of students and also consider the needs of each student.
As teachers, we know that our antennae are always attuned to how well our students are doing.
The bedrock of effective instruction and assessment is the knowledge we have of our content…
As teachers, we get excited about the things we learn, new ideas we’re exposed to…
In a standards-based system, assessments are done at the indicator level. However…
At JumpRope and in the field of education in general, we talk a lot about transparency.
In an effort to provide our readers with multiple perspectives, this post offers a look at how other authors…
Know where to go; know how to get there. This is very good advice for any journey, including…
Since the US started its journey to standards-based teaching and learning, national organizations…
In a standards-based system, assessments are done at the indicator level. However…
At JumpRope and in the field of education in general, we talk a lot about transparency.
As a young teacher, one of the first traditional concepts I questioned was the use of the bell curve.
Have you ever read through a stack of student assessments and realized that one or more of the questions…
In assessing products or presentations, providing our students with an easily understood set of assessment …
Of the 150 influences on achievement John Hattie notes in Visible Learning for Teachers, feedback ranks tenth…
Building assessment into our daily and weekly plans allows us to collect data that informs…
An assessment map is a tool to help with big-picture planning…
True calibration doesn’t happen in one planning period, and it doesn’t happen in isolation…
Teacher collaboration is an essential tool in working toward equitable assessment across a school or district.
Most of the time when we hear the term “validity” with respect to assessment, it’s coupled with the term “reliability”.
The combination of offering feedback to students and helping them set goals…
We’ve learned through decades of research that supporting students in effective goal-setting increases…
An overview of the values and beliefs that guide everything we do at JumpRope.
Collaboration helps us do our best work to improve student learning, and more importantly, it allows us…
The blog post “Using Data to Revise Plans” addresses data at several levels, including the classroom level.
It’s useful for teachers to spend time examining assignments students have submitted to note trends they see and consider strategies to address them.
Becky Brown, EdD and Eduplanet21 dive into why you need a holistic way to look at both curriculum alignment and classroom performance.
At The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria JumpRope has helped teachers record student progress on outcomes.
At Vancouver iTech Preparatory JumpRope has made it possible for teachers to record and communicate student progress on individual standards.
Founded in Washington, D.C., Capital City Public Charter School is a success story about forging positive change.
Since moving to standards-based learning (SBL) in our classroom last year, the biggest difference has been the shift in focus from teaching to learning.