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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

At Loyola University New Orleans, we recognize the value of knowledge gained both inside and outside of the classroom. Our students bring unique perspectives and professional experiences that help ...

The UCITE Assessment Learning Community (ALC) was offered from 2020 through 2022 as an interdisciplinary group of CWRU teaching faculty colleagues who sought to explore and expand their understanding ...

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 ...

A crucial part of educating the whole child involves supporting their social-emotional learning (SEL) with data-based decisions for targeted and intensive interventions. To ensure educators can ...

The goal is not to eliminate AI from the classroom; the goal is to ensure that human thinking remains central.

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 ...