K-12 For Educators

Diagnostic testing is an important tool for educators who want to know where their students are academically in order to bring those students to where they need to be. If you want your students to...

No matter what standardized test your students are taking, reading is a major focus (even on math tests). There, teaching reading even more important than ever. The strategy suggested here will...

Accurately measuring academic achievement is an important part of planning for a child's education. However, no one source of information should be used to assess academic achievement. A student...

In 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law which requires states to give students in grades 3 to 8 an annual test in reading and math. All students must...

Teachers often have to figure out how to modify tests for students. Sometimes this is required by a 504 plan or a special education plan. Usually, the requirement is just "modified...

Whether in kindergarten or college, the study of math fills the hearts and minds of many students with anxiety and trepidation. Some retreat inwards and avoid doing homework. Others become visibly...

The Brigance Test of Basic Skills, also known as the Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills-Revised, is a criterion referenced assessment that identifies a student's academic level of...

Assessment is an integral part of education. To plan for successful assessment in your classroom, you first need to establish a set of policies and procedures that you will follow with regard to...

Many of us will study and study and study for a test and feel really good about. We go to bed, wake up in the morning confident we will do well...then all of a sudden we get the test, and our mind...

Test day has the potential to bring anxiety not just for students, but for teachers as well. Catching a student cheating on a test and disciplining them has the potential to create quite a lot of...

Educators often neglect the concept of cooperation. When students learn only how to satisfy their own individual learning goals, they fail to recognize the value of helping one another to succeed....

Scantron machines are a mainstay at many schools because they save teachers much-needed time. The machines allow for mechanical, automatic scoring of test results. Students mark answers on coded...

The API, or Academic Performance Index, is a process used in California to determine the performance and growth of schools and districts based on test scores on grades 2 through 11. The API is...

Reporting test results and progress to parents without adequate preparation may damage the relationship between parent, student and teacher. A few minutes of preparation, a healthy sense of...

A diagnostic reading assessment is used to measure students' skills in each of the five components of reading: vocabulary, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency and comprehension. It is given...

There are many types of reading assessments used in schools; some of them are meant to measure the knowledge of the structure of words and language, while others gauge a child's overall...

Administering formal tests and quizzes is a concrete way to measure academic progress and monitor weak subject areas. As educators, it's important to challenge students to retain knowledge and to...

Most students I that have come across hate the idea of a spelling test. I was faced with a situation where students who could have done very well if they’d studied were cheating on simple spelling...

Test anxiety is a common reality for all students. However, ESL students have to deal with the anxiety of taking a test while under the duress of learning a second language. Teaching test-taking...

Paraeducators in New York get to interact with students from different backgrounds. They get to help bridge the gap of the cultural and possibly economic as well as educational divide that many...

Testing substances for acid or base content (pH) is a standard part of any basic chemistry course. You can easily make your own pH indicator solution that will turn bright pink in the presence of...

"Emergency teacher certification" is a term that was used in the 1980s when there appeared to be a shortage of teachers. Nowadays, it's commonly called "alternative route." Taking an alternative...

Home economics, also known as family science or human ecology, is the study of the science of running a home or other domestic space. Courses in this area can cover a wide variety of subjects, so...

This project will allow students of any age, to construct a vehicle for crash testing. Vehicles will contain a raw egg that will survive the crash test or will crack and splatter. Crash test is...

With the advent of modern computing devices, students have found ways to cheat that their parents (and teachers) never thought possible. When administering a computer-based test, you must be...

There are times when a student's identified disability has the potential to interfere with her ability to prove her knowledge and skills during testing. In these cases, special education laws...

Testing a student's comprehension of a subject has been around as long as formal teaching has been used for education. There are many methods of assessing a student's learning. Although essay...

Bookkeeping is a subject that will be useful for the rest of your life. People use bookkeeping everyday--to balance their checkbooks, to make budgets and to check their credit card statements....

Since Spanish is rapidly becoming the second language of this country, if a student is required to take a foreign language, Spanish is the recommended language to take. Writing a Spanish test is...

I have found it beneficial to begin the school year by teaching the students the literary terms they will need to know for that year and beyond. Then when these terms or examples of them show up...

Use cooking classes in the kindergarten and high school curriculum to teach the relationship between foods, health and fitness. Test your students' understanding of the subject matter by utilizing...

There are many types of chemistry tests, and some are better at revealing what students comprehend than others. Multiple-choice tests can be just guesswork and luck, problem solving can be a...

Writing a history test should be a mix of different types of questions to accommodate various learning styles. The directions given here use an example from a ninth grade world history class....

Writing a geography test should include a mix of different types of questions to accommodate various learning styles. The directions given here are for a ninth grade European geography test....

Grading on a curve can give students an advantage during an assignment, test or essay. The most common form of curving assumes that the top scorer should have gotten a perfect score on the test,...

Passing the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) is one of the first steps to becoming a teacher in California. There are many resources available to help you get ready for the test....