Quick, low-stakes observations focused on student learning allow administrators to provide teachers with useful feedback on instruction.

“...to take advantage of the energy for change that's ‘out there’ today will require not just different methods in the classroom but the development of a campus ...

In the third of our National Strategies features on the EYFS, Vicky Hutchin, Early Years Senior Regional Adviser and Pauline Hoare, Early Years Senior Adviser, reflect on the role of observation and ...

The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) at CU Boulder offers free and confidential classroom observations for educators at all levels. Whether you’re a tenured professor, teaching professor, lecturer ...

First and foremost, teacher observations should be based on a co-constructed goal. Anything else doesn’t make sense. If principals and teachers aren’t talking about a common goal before an observation ...

There is another way in which assessments can contribute to the development of effective schools, one that has been largely ignored. The evolution of assessment in this country over the past five ...

The process of systematically watching and listening to children and documenting what practitioners see and hear is central to good practice, say Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram. In ...

Are great teaching and assessment fundamentally at odds? One might think so because, unfortunately, the words “test” and “assessment” are often used interchangeably. When we think about testing, we ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...