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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that you have made the switch to teach your courses online, the next thing on your mind are student assessments. How will assessing student learning differ from what you have done before? In what ...

Assessment of student learning is the systematic and cyclical process through which faculty members, department chairs, and program directors articulate learning outcomes for their courses and ...

A global learning crisis is affecting the life chances of millions of children around the world. Despite significant progress over the past fifteen years in getting more girls and boys into school, ...

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, ...