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 ...

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, ...

While individual colleges have unique missions, many share the same learning goals that include a student’s proficiency in reading, writing, critical thinking and mathematics. The ability to assess ...

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

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 ...

Teaching large classes comes with unique challenges, especially when it comes to effective learning assessments. The best learner-centered approaches can feel daunting in a 200-person class—can you ...

In 2024, CU Boulder identified the need for an intensive cross-campus focus on creating and assessing program learning outcomes to support student success, guide academic planning and meet the ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...