Rick Stiggins, Author at The Hechinger Report

In this Feb. 12, 2015 photo, Marquez Allen, age 12, reads test questions on a laptop computer during in a trial run of a new state assessment test at Annapolis Middle School in Annapolis, Md. The new test, which is scheduled to go into use March 2, 2015, is linked to the Common Core standards, which Maryland adopted in 2010 under the federal No Child Left Behind law, and serves as criteria for students in math and reading.

Elementary to High School, Opinion, Teacher Preparation

How can teachers heed Obama’s call to cap assessments if they don’t know how to give tests?

by Rick Stiggins and Matt Chapman October 27, 2015March 30, 2020

The Obama administration’s call this past weekend for Congress to “reduce over-testing,” and to cap assessment to 2 percent of classroom instruction time comes amid a debate on testing that has turned toxic, with assessments becoming synonymous with punitive policies instead of with directing teaching and learning. Despite years of focus on accountability, inequities in […]