Rethinking Retakes

Assessment practice is one of those places where being more learner-centered and equitable is truly pushing beliefs and systems to evolve In a world where we desire to act upon the core belief that learning is the constant, time is the variable- and we embrace the messiness inherent within learning- educators must wrestle with rewriting long standing traditions within the assessment arena. One of the most passion-filled, and time-consuming wrestling matches going on in schools across the country has a common contender: the “retake.”