When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

This post is by Tony Siddall, the K-12 Program Officer at Next Generation Learning Challenges. What is assessment, really? Having worked in and with schools for more than fifteen years, I thought I ...

While in his previous role as associate dean, Lafreniere became concerned about the number of students who were repeating developmental mathematics courses two or three times in an effort to move on ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

In today’s evolving educational landscape, effective student assessment goes beyond multiple-choice tests and letter grades. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe ...

Many of my conversations with faculty focus on the challenges they have with doing good learning assessment in large classes. The best learner-centered assessment approaches are no match for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines a multiyear project funded by the Teagle Foundation to assess student learning in humanitarian studies. It explores ...

The rise in online contract cheating services and advances in artificial intelligence have increased pressures on designing assessment tasks that maintain academic integrity. Supervised exams are a ...