For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

Learning assessment is a means for understanding, measuring and improving the quality and equity of education. It deals with the large-scale collection, research, analysis, dissemination and use of ...

Faculty members tend to be skeptical about attempts to go beyond grading with standardized definitions and measures of what students should learn -- the so-called student learning outcomes accreditors ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...

The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...

The assessment glossary is a work in progress by the Outcome Assessment Coordinating Committee and will develop more fully over time. The intent of providing these definitions is to help establish a ...

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While the idea of teaching critical thinking has been bandied around in education circles since at least the time of John Dewey, it has taken greater prominence in the education debates with the ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Brian Seymour is the director of instructional technology at the Pickerington (Ohio) Local School District. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning. Let me explain why: In today’s world of ...

Learning assessment is a means for understanding, measuring and improving the quality and equity of education. It deals with the large-scale collection, research, analysis, dissemination and use of ...