How Can Teachers Better Understand Students? A New Breed of Assessment Will Try to Help
“Researchers and education entrepreneurs launched a project Wednesday that aims to create a new breed of assessments that will offer teachers a window into young students’ emerging identities and build on their strengths to enhance their learning.
The idea behind the program, called Assessment for Good, is to help teachers understand how students 8 to 13 years old are starting to see themselves in the world, culturally, socially, and academically, and how that constantly shifting sense of self takes shape—and can support—learning.”