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 ...

Beth Holland will soon be joining me as the co-author of EdTech Researcher, as she embarks on her doctoral work at Johns Hopkins. In this guest post, she reflects on how we should be assessing ...

Your article about assessment-based learning and degrees is a pathetic example of American ethnocentrism (“Assessment Takes Center Stage in Online Learning,” April 13). The University of London has ...

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 ...

Communications Learning Assessment (CLA) supports formative assessment in medical education by providing a structured ...

This post is by Rafael Heller, Principal Policy Analyst at Jobs for the Future. Last week, in this space, Bob Lenz described the encouraging results of an important new study by the American ...

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 ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Colleges are feeling heat to prove that their students are learning. As a result, a growing number of colleges are measuring intended “learning outcomes” as well as issuing grades. But fewer are using ...

In alignment with Northwestern’s commitment to excellent teaching and the personal and intellectual growth of our students, the University is dedicated to the assessment of student learning outcomes ...

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 ...