Q&A: Toward Better Assessments in Online Courses Online learning offers instructors an opportunity to rethink their approach to assessment. A new book hopes to spur that conversation.

Assessment is the linchpin to driving essential skill and competency development. Traditionally, assessments have often been used as an indicator of what students know, understand, and can do, after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Home Initiatives Assessment of Student Learning Assessment of Student Learning In alignment with Northwestern’s commitment to excellent teaching and the personal and intellectual growth of our ...

Recognizing the difficulties of administering tests during remote learning, teachers are adopting new assessment strategies.

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 ...

The University of North Georgia offers an Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces Placement, Preparation and Learning (ALEKS PPL) Assessment to determine readiness for mathematics courses. ALEKS ...

Formative Assessments: A Key to Continuous Learning Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate ...

A California school engages students in internships that deepen their learning and assesses their competencies in ways that promote equity.

To the Editor: I appreciate Laurie Fendrich’s ability to get through a tirade about assessment without using the words “fascist,” “jackboots,” or “Orwellian” (“A Pedagogical ...