In an attempt to head off a government-ordered system to measure student learning, the two higher-education associations representing the nation’s public colleges are calling on their members to ...

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...

Last December, Peter DeWitt wrote a blog post titled 11 Critical Issues Facing Educators in 2023. Among the items on his list was: A love for learning – I know this sounds hokey, but it’s not. There ...

Virginia joins growing number of states using analytics and data to better support teachers and accelerate student learning CARY, N.C., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The key to measuring learning loss ...

LAUSD test scores improved more than statewide results, but academic achievement is falling short of internal goals. Should ...

The Council for Higher Education Accreditation, a nonprofit organization that promotes the idea of higher education regulating itself, is calling on colleges to do a better job of measuring what ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that the International Big Picture Learning Credential was developed by Big Picture Learning Australia with the help of researchers from the ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

If we allow a single test score number to define a child, an educator or a school, we fail to honor the complexity of learning.