Innovation in Measuring Student Progress
Better Ways to Measure Student Progress
Traditional grading practices are deeply flawed, and it’s high time to replace them with more beneficial ways of measuring student progress. Over-relying on summative assessments does little to encourage the collection and use of formative data, and even the best teacher-created assessments still confront issues of reliability and validity. While the objectivity of attaching numbers to student proficiency may seem precise, this specificity rings hollow and only serves to lower student motivation.
- Edutopia
Broader measures of success: Measuring what matters in education
The goals must cover a range of dimensions of learning that are critical to students’ overall success. A possible list of dimensions of learning could include:
academic achievement
physical and mental health
social-emotional development
creativity and innovation
citizenship and democracy
school climate — which can be both a condition that improves students’ chances for success and a goal in and of itself.
- People For Education
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Students
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults in British Columbia
The immediate adverse effects of COVID19-related response measures on young adult health and well-being, and on the social determinants of health, are increasingly evident in survey findings from BC and Canada. These data forecast serious challenges that need to be addressed to prevent unintended long-term consequences of COVID-19 for young adults and our broader society.
- BC Center for Disease Control
The Lost Year in Education
Millions of dots of light around the world went dark as children who would have learned language, history and science and progressed to more schooling or better jobs began a life of low-wage toil. The costs, for those millions of lives and the other millions they touch, are almost incalculable.
- McLeans
Disrupted schooling, learning loss will have effects long after pandemic, say education experts
From switches between remote and in-person learning to juggling class quarantines due to school-related cases, Canadian students continue to grapple with a tumultuous education experience amid COVID-19. Education advocates and international experts alike are highlighting pandemic-disrupted schooling and learning loss as longer-term concerns that will persist even after COVID-19 wanes.
- CBC.ca
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