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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect job description for Paul Leather. He oversees state and local partnerships for the Center for Innovation and Education. Let’s get ...

Assessment has always been an important part of learning but lately, we’ve grown to rely on quizzes and tests that are artificial, expensive, single-purpose, uninformative, and inequitable. Our ...

For assessments to be used effectively in schools, it’s important for districts and schools to consider what assessments are intended for and how the data gained from the assessments will be applied ...

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 ...

Guidance on bringing together academic expertise, students’ lived experience and GenAI’s creative capacity to co-design genuinely inclusive, collaborative, and engaging learning experiences For years, ...

All instruction is culturally responsive. The question is: To which culture is it currently oriented?" —Gloria Ladson-Billings One powerful means of bringing students’ culture into the classroom is ...

Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI. We’re seeing the predictable results of higher ...