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Volume 9  |  Issue 12  |  March 13, 2014  
Using Assessments Thoughtfully
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James Popham says, "Teachers can grow defensible evidence of student growth by relying on teacher-made classroom assessments. But teachers need to learn how to build tests that accurately measure such growth—and how to administer and then score those tests so the world believes what they say."

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We received so many high-quality submissions for the theme of the November 7 issue, "Tackling Informational Texts," that we're repeating the theme. This issue will include all-new, original, practitioner-submitted strategies and advice for meeting and exceeding the Common Core State Standards' emphasis on increasingly complex informational text and the need for deep comprehension across all content areas.

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Using Assessments Thoughtfully

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March 2014 Educational LeadershipClassroom assessments provide ongoing feedback on student progress and lesson effectiveness. Learn how to align and mine your assessments for meaningful data, how to use assessments to enshrine creative thinking, and how large-scale assessments should change to provide more accurate measures of English language learner content knowledge.

Combine this issue with the March Educational Leadership magazine on the same theme. 

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Assessing Our Way to Creative Thinking

When assessments give students the tools to develop competence, see content in new ways, and do meaningful work, creativity flourishes.

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Designing Reliable and Valid Common Core–Aligned Math Assessments

Learn a simple strategy for tracking whether your assessments consistently measure intended learning targets.

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Making Student Learning Data Work for You

How to break down assessment results so that they provide a roadmap for lesson refinement.

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How Teachers Can Turn Data into Action   Digital Learning Strategies
How Teachers Can Turn Data into Action   Digital Learning Strategies

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Engage Students with Motivation 3.0

Engage Students with Motivation 3.0 Creative and complex thinking can't run on an outdated operating system. ASCD Annual Conference general session speaker Daniel Pink describes how smart teachers and parents have upgraded their approach to motivation.

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What Are We Really Assessing for English Language Learners?

Lisa Cullington Lack of language proficiency distorts standardized assessments of what English language learners know and leads to unnecessary remediation. Here's how these tests should evolve.

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Edutech for Teachers

Let technology coach and self-proclaimed "geeky girl" Jamie Forshey point you to the best instructional tools.

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"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

—Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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