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testing, admissions, & assessment

22 episodes

Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else)

Diane Ravitch was a champion of education reform until she changed her mind about all of it. This is her story.

A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother's Reckoning with the IQ Test

We talk with Pepper Stetler about her new book, which dives into the history and problems with measuring "intelligence".

Meritocracy, Anxiety, & the Chinese College Entrance Exam

Zachary Howlett explores the pros and pitfalls of the gaokao, China's high-stakes national college entrance exam.

Pedagogical Documentation

An overview of how we can capture learning in multimodal ways over the course of the school year.

Off The Mark: How Grades, Ratings, & Rankings Undermine Learning (But Don't Have To)

Balancing the real with the ideal, Jack & Ethan chart a path toward the possibility of doing grades, transcripts, and testing differently.

More Teaching, Less Testing Act

We talk with former teacher and principal, school founder, and EdD, Congressman Jamaal Bowman, about the More Teaching, Less Testing Act

Telling Powerful Stories of Learning

How can we leverage technology to share stories of student learning?

How Advanced Placement Cheats Students

We've ceded a lot of power to a single company and a single brand - AP - to determine our educational goals, values, & practice.

Bonus: Elevating the Conversation on NAEP Scores

Deconstructing what test scores actually mean.

"College Ready" AP

Holding the College Board accountable.

Unpacking Learning Loss: The Who, the What, and the Why

A breakdown of our "Learning Loss Handbook."

Essay: What’s in a grade? GRExit, GPA, College Admissions, and the Mastery Transcript (oh my!)

A narrative on why we need to rethink college admissions.

Deciphering "Learning Loss"

Examining how the "learning loss" narrative isn't what it seems.

Catalyzing the Ungrading Movement

Approaching progressive concepts beyond academia (YouTube, Twitch, Discord).

Why Rating Students Undermines Learning

Creating spaces of alternative assessment in K-12 and higher ed.

A Way to Ungrade, Floop

Provide effective feedback through the "feedback loop." (It's actually good EdTech!)

The Research on Assessment

The cutting-edge research on moving away from grades.

Building a No Test Future

Building a movement that ends standardized testing.

Self-Assessment, Gradeless Learning, and Teacher Well-Being

Reframe assessment by ungrading.

Making the Switch to Ungrading

Identifying case studies of ungrading and humane assessment.

Redefining Assessment by Implementing Gradeless Learning feat. Jeffery Frieden, Aaron Blackwelder, & Nick Covington

Utilizing ungrading and moving away from grades.

Essay: Gradeless Learning

A narrative on moving away from grades.