The Learning Hub Blog

Teachers and students often interpret their struggle with content as a sign that something isn’t working. Maybe the directions weren’t clear enough, the task was too complex, or the scaffolds were ins...

Teachers often equate a quiet, compliant, and industrious classroom with learning. Students appear attentive, complete their work, and respond when called on. These contribute to a well-managed classr...

Let’s say the quiet part out loud: a proficiency scale isn’t just a scoring tool. It’s the blueprint for how we design instruction and assessments that let us certify learning at specific levels. When...

A proficiency scale is often wrongfully considered a tool to help change grading practices. This might be because they are often considered a necessity for implementing standards-based grading practic...

“Classroom assessment [is] anything a teacher does to gather information about a student’s knowledge or skill regarding a specific topic,” Marzano, R. (2010)

In competency-based education (CBE), asse...