Tag: Assessment

  • Nation & World

    Who needed a stapler?

    Harvard Professors Eric Mazur and Gary King, together with postdoctoral fellow Brian Lukoff, took an idea about how to change classroom teaching and created a company based on it. When the company sold last spring, it didn’t even own a stapler.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Understanding student weaknesses

    As part of an unusual study that surveyed 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 students, researchers found that the most successful teachers were those who knew what students would get wrong on standardized tests.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Teaching beyond the tests

    A panel explores the effects of high-stakes testing, and suggests new measurements of achievement are needed.

    4 minutes