Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

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 Adriana Martinez, the Innovation Program Manager at CCSSO. For years, states have taken the lead in exploring how to create better ways to assess students. In 2016, New Hampshire ...

Planning and aligning your assessments with your learning outcomes is central to effective assessment design and is key to good course design. In this way, you ensure that your assessment tasks match ...

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They also expect that their children will do as well or better in learning the ...

What is the difference between formative and interim assessments? Here’s a guide for distinguishing different kinds of student assessments. Formative Learning Assessment: Formative learning is the ...

The recent Gonski report argues Australia needs assessment and reporting models that capture both achievement progress and long-term learning progress. This, according to the review panel, involves ...

What is proficiency? Why does it matter? How can we assess it? How does it differ from other kinds of assessment? And what does proficiency assessment tell us that helps to improve learning? David ...

In setting the stage for the workshop, John Norcini from the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) described assessment as a powerful tool for directing ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- Fort Campbell students will participate in an infrastructure trial of the new College and Career Ready Standards summative assessments Feb. 9. The College and Career Ready ...