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 ...

This post is by Soung Bae, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, and Kari Kokka, Research Associate, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and ...

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 ...

A quintessential academic year observes the linear fashion: delivery of course content interspersed with some short assessments, a brief—often insignificant—period of revision and finally, the annual ...

America has spent 60 years building layer upon layer of district, state, national, and international assessments at immense cost—and with little evidence that our assessment practices have improved ...

During 2020, WMU adopted a policy allowing graduate programs to grant credit via Prior Learning Assessments (PLA). This document describes the process developed by the Literacy Studies unit faculty, ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Contemporary New Zealand and international assessment theory, practice and policy are examined and critiqued with application for educators in their learning context. The fourth number of the course ...

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 ...