Carol Boston says “Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter ...

The General Education curriculum enriches the lives of the students as they acquire the knowledge, skills, and competencies to be successful in their chosen fields and as lifelong learners. 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 ...

For years, the assessment leaders in the literature program in the Department of English were frustrated by the traditional approaches used for assessing student learning in their field. Pre- and post ...

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 ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Amid continuing debate, and sometimes disagreement, about the value and wisdom of measuring student ...

Brad Marcum is the director of academic and data services at the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine. Follow him on Twitter @BradMarc. Keeping up with new teaching ...

Jovid Juraev, a mentor helping to train teachers in Tajikistan, noticed an important interaction when observing Fayzali Oimahmadov’s classroom: “I was observing a Grade 2 Tajik Language class where ...