By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
Authentic Assessment is hard to do – but it’s the way assessment of skills SHOULD be done! Authentic assessment refers to assessment tasks that resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Its aim is to assess many different kinds of literacy abilities in contexts […]
Read More…New research finds that most HR professionals lack confidence in their organizations’ processes for screening entry-level hires. This is an excellent article written by Andrew R. McIlvaine in Human Resource Executive ONLINE. You can read the article by clicking HERE.
Read More…Compensation always seems to have effects on behavior. This is true when compensation is used as a motivation tool to reward excellent performance. But compensation can have a dark side, too. Sadly, it reared its ugly head when teachers and administrators – in an effort to show how well their students were performing – elected […]
Read More…The Verified Resume is a skills-based credential created by Dr. Arnold Packer, former Executive Director of the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). This tool is an authentic assessment document demonstrating, through third party verification, that an individual has mastered certain essential critical skills. Assessment of the so-called “soft skills” and Critical Skills do […]
Read More…Good news for Common Core assessment supporters. Arianna Prothero writes an article in the September 23 issue of Education Week that 72% of the nation’s superintendents support Common Core assessment. This is an increase over previous polls.
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