The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is “performance assessment” and how and why should I use it with students? Assessment is an obvious key part of our work as educators. There are many different ...

This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). There is widespread agreement that test-based accountability ...

Experiencing math anxiety -- nervousness and discomfort in relation to math -- impairs math performance for some students, but new research shows that it's linked with improved performance for others, ...

“I want an accountability model that is also about increasing the reading achievement of kids, the math achievement ... the school have little to no bearing on that performance grade,” Maher said. The ...

The purpose of this review was to synthesize the research on the relationship between performance on Piagetian tasks of concrete operations and performance on mathematics learning tasks in order to ...

The recent National Assessment of Educational Progress scores show that schools are failing at their most basic task. Math and reading proficiency is in a pattern of steep decline — down 4 points in ...