Edutopia: Comprehensive Assessment
The Comprehensive Assessment portion of the Edutopia website connects educators to a large number of Edutopia resources, including articles, discussions, videos, tip sheets, and guides that delve into the challenges of providing comprehensive assessment. Developed by: The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) Audience: Educators, pre-service educators, professional development providers Potential Use: Professional Development – self-guided… Read More ›
5 Key Takeaways From The Past And The Promise: Today’s Competency Education Movement
Students at the Center has just launched a new research series on competency education. Competency education is both a core tenet in our student-centered framework and an area of increasing interest to practitioners and policymakers. Over the coming months, we will continue to release this series of research syntheses and updates from the field that help… Read More ›
A New Era for Educational Assessment – Policy Bulletin
This policy bulletin is based on A New Era for Educational Assessment, published by Students at the Center. The report was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Among education researchers, there is a growing consensus that college and career readiness depends on not just academic knowledge and skills but on a wide range… Read More ›
A New Era for Educational Assessment
Among education researchers, there is a growing consensus that college and career readiness depends on not just academic knowledge and skills but on a wide range of social and developmental competencies, as well—such as the ability to monitor one’s own learning, persist at challenging tasks, solve complex problems, set realistic goals, and communicate effectively in… Read More ›
Students at the Center Newsletter – September 2014
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The Past and The Promise: Today’s Competency Education Movement Executive Summary
Competency education is attracting significant interest as a promising way to help meet our national priority of ensuring that all young people are ready for college and careers. In competency-based schools, students advance at different rates, based on their ability to demonstrate mastery of learning objectives. Teachers provide customized supports to help propel everyone to… Read More ›
The Past and the Promise: Today’s Competency Education Movement
This report, the first in the Students at the Center’s new Competency Education Research Series lays a foundation for assessing the potential of competency-based models, grounded in an exploration of the outcomes from previous like-minded efforts. Recent research and theory from the learning sciences show that a personalized approach to competency education may help better… Read More ›
Putting Students at the Center: A Reference Guide
Today, we know more than ever about how students learn. Education researchers have identified key components of college and career readiness, while research in the cognitive sciences has revealed the neurological pathways of effective learning and shown how it affects the brain. This reference guide from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation delves deep into the principles… Read More ›
What is Student-Centered Learning? (brochure)
Why should education be one-size fits all? Learning doesn’t stop when the final bell rings. Does your brain only work when you’re sitting in a chair? How do we prepare today’s learners for tomorrow’s economy? Learn more about student-centered learning from this Nellie Mae Education brochure. Download this brochure >
Students at the Center Newsletter – Summer 2014
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Tech-based Student Support Resources
To complement our School Counselor Advocacy Letter[/popup_trigger],the Students at the Center Hub team curated a set of tech-based tools particularly suited for counselors wishing to improve communication strategies and documentation with students and teachers. Based on feedback gathered from New England-based counselors, we developed a menu of web-based resources to respond to the counselors’ interest… Read More ›
Students at the Center Newsletter – June 2014
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