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...
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...
7 Facts About CTE Courses for Content Writers

7 Facts About CTE Courses for Content Writers

Career and Technical Education Students Need Literacy Strategies, Too! A recent study published by Cornell University found that combining literacy strategies with activities in CTE courses improved students’ reading abilities and, in turn, their grades. This isn’t...
3 Strategies for Developing a Math Performance Task

3 Strategies for Developing a Math Performance Task

3 Strategies for Developing a Math Performance Task   Performance tasks provide an opportunity to assess students’ higher-order thinking and reasoning, which is sometimes difficult to evaluate using multiple-choice or other content-driven assessment items. As...