Students had to compile a portfolio and discuss it in an interview to demonstrate their understanding and ability to apply ...

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 ...

Eric Gilbert’s recent opinion essay, “Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time” (The Chronicle, March 20), grossly misrepresents the assessment of learning. Gilbert states that “the fundamental claim ...

Artificial intelligence is causing college instructors to move more meaningful examinations back to the classroom, and ...

For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

The pandemic has introduced a great deal of hardship into many students’ lives, which may make it difficult for them to learn. Disruptions to students’ mental and emotional health, social systems of ...

The CORE Team in New Student and Family Programs consists of 20 student leaders selected to lead their peers in programming for new students and family members at Northwestern University. Throughout ...

New York’s Education Department responded to standardized testing during COVID with restraint, but the Biden administration chose to embrace a doomed mandate, rejecting all requests for waivers ...

Santa Fe, N.M. — Colleges are doing more to assess student learning than higher-education officials and policy makers may think, Stanley O. Ikenberry, a former president of the American Council on ...

Before third grade in NY, students are learning completely unencumbered by the fear and useless waste of time of state testing. Kids are free to learn in an environment that challenges their ...

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, ...

Michigan Tech's program of Graduate Student Learning Assessment asks the question: Are graduate students learning what we think they are learning? Each graduate program at Michigan Tech has adopted a ...