This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in 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 ...

Western Michigan University touts itself as a student-centered research university. As such, students are the main focus of our mission. We must be continually concerned with what our students learn ...

Assessment is a systematic process for the continuous improvement of student learning that assures educational quality. It enables the university community to identify opportunities to improve courses ...

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 ...

As fall arrives, students are returning to school, we hope, with a renewed enthusiasm for learning. As teachers prepare for ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Jason Lodge works for the Centre for the Study of Higher Education and the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC) at the University of Melbourne. The SLRC is funded through a Special Research ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- Ask the many assessment haters in higher education who is most to blame for what they perceive as the fixation on trying to measure student learning outcomes, and they are ...