4 Scientific Discoveries That Cut Across All Classes

4 Scientific Discoveries That Cut Across All Classes

Ever had a problem you can’t solve even though you spent a lot of time thinking about it? You try one solution then the next, each with no correct answer, until suddenly—“Eureka!”—you know what to do and the solution is obvious. In this Aha! Moment, “your brain...
3 Strategies Educational Content Developers Use to Unpack Standards

3 Strategies Educational Content Developers Use to Unpack Standards

Most educational content developers know that they should look to the applicable standards before writing, but how do they unpack the standards? Review the three tips below to make sure that these standards are understood to their full extent: 1.  Decode Power Verbs...
Calculus: 4 Common Student Misconceptions

Calculus: 4 Common Student Misconceptions

Appropriately named from the Latin word meaning “small stone,” calculus studies changes in variables over time at infinitesimally small intervals. Whether taken in high school or college, as a capstone or a prerequisite, this math course has the potential to excite...
5 Things a Content Developer Should Know About Standards

5 Things a Content Developer Should Know About Standards

Why should a content developer care about standards? Because writing without standards is like creating without a vision. Michelangelo always said that he was “releasing the sculpture he saw inside the marble.” Developers must do the same when writing their content,...
6 Cool Technology Enhanced Assessment Items

6 Cool Technology Enhanced Assessment Items

While next-generation assessments have exposed content writers to new ways of asking students to demonstrate proficiency of standards, many are still unaware of the plethora of technology enhanced item (TEI) types available. It is important that curriculum and item...
3 Strategies for Developing a Performance Task in Science

3 Strategies for Developing a Performance Task in Science

Looking for a way to authentically and fully assess student comprehension? Use performance tasks! As science content writers, we are familiar with hands-on challenges that assess discrete skills—for example, a multi-station practical at the end of a laboratory-based...