In a climate where there continues to be a movement among parents and educators to opt out of standardized tests, ‘assessment’ has become a dirty word. However, assessment in itself isn’t to blame.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Part One in this series featured responses from Jennifer Serravallo, Andrew Miller, Daniel R. Venables, Brady E. Venables, ...

In today’s rapidly changing economy, simply attending school is not enough. To succeed at work and in life, students must develop foundational knowledge and skills through core subjects like language, ...

The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on current best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom, ...