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A learning-team model that can be used by teachers to learn between team meetings is suggested. Teachers should create a cultural shift in the school by stressing the importance of 'teachers as learners.' Teachers should then create an understanding of the process by emphasizing that the aim of learning teams is strengthen student learning.

The authors argue that the failure of 60 years of total reliance on assessment via standardized tests to help reduce achievement score gaps must compel us to rethink the role [...]

Formative assessment, done well, represents one of the most powerful instructional tools available to a teacher or a school for promoting student achievement. Teachers and schools can use formative assessment [...]

The use of more assessments to measure student achievement has posed concerns regarding the quality of these assessments. Suggestions on clear purpose, learning targets, and results communication, student involvement and efficient assessment design are recommended to address the quality of educational assessments.

The article discusses how to inculcate a new way of assessing students in schools, such as motivating them, helping them become more confident of themselves and tapping their learning potential.

SOCIETY HAS SEEN fit to redefine the role of its schools. No longer are they to be places that merely sort and rank students according to their achievement. Now, they [...]

We have inherited an assessment legacy that has actually prevented us from tapping the full power of assessment for school improvement, Mr. Stiggins maintains. He offers a new vision of [...]