Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

A new alliance of college presidents was born today, aiming both to show the world that colleges are working to measure and improve student learning and to put pressure on themselves to intensify that ...

How can we ensure students are truly learning and expressing their own understanding, not just outsourcing their thinking to ...

In Part 1 of this two-part series on 21st century teaching and learning, I stated: Current mobile technology challenges [instructional] design even further as it demands a totally different approach ...

This post is by Rafael Heller, Principal Policy Analyst at Jobs for the Future. In my previous post, I recommended that fans of deeper learning take a look at David Conley’s new report on educational ...

Assessing group work involves evaluating a group's achievement of learning outcomes through collaborative assignments or projects (product), that group's ability to work together (process), and/or the ...

What is Assessment? Why is it important? Assessment is a core component of all teaching, learning and curricular activities. Assessments provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate how deeply ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, such as ChatGPT, have rapidly gained popularity. Despite this widespread ...

Effective assessment is a cornerstone of teaching and learning, providing educators with valuable insights into student progress, understanding, and achievement. Whether you're teaching a large ...