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 ...

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals.

Within the past 50 years, we’ve seen our country move from an industrial economy to an information-based economy. Now, early in the 21st century, it appears we are shifting to an innovation-based ...

Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, whose aim is to collect evidence ...

Peer review of academic programs is a widely accepted method for assessing curricular sequences as well as course development and delivery. Using external reviewers is a useful way of analyzing ...

This article is an excerpt from “Edtech, ESSA, and the SAT: Is the Use of Data in Schools Destroying K-12 Innovation?” The talk was given at the University of Virginia’s Data Science Institute on ...

Assessment is evolving to leverage new technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality. And it’s starting to happen right now in classrooms and school buildings in the U.S. and abroad.

Timed written examinations continue to dominate university assessment. In most professions, the need to recall and write down specific information from memory under timed conditions is rare. Yet every ...