The recent decision to ban multiple-choice questions at an Australian university has sparked debate about the purpose of assessment in higher education. While there are many problems with the ways ...

Practical suggestions to address a staff-student disconnect relating to the purpose and practice of assessment and to enhance assessment literacy on your courses ...

Future of Testing in Education: Effective and Equitable Assessment Systems This analysis of testing in schools shows what the current debate gets wrong, and how educators and policymakers can ...

Learning and assessment will happen simultaneously, and teacher will use a variety of assessment methods and tools to collect data and analyze it with the purpose of enhancing learning. 1.

In fact, the major purpose of assessment in schools should be to provide interpretative information to teachers and school leaders about their impact on students, so that these educators have the ...

This article in the Medical Education series provides a conceptual framework for and a brief update on commonly used and emerging methods of assessment, discusses the strengths and limitations of e ...

As a recent engineering graduate, I agree with Douglas Belkin’s assessment of the state of higher education in America (“Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College,” Review, Jan ...

To navigate today's challenges, educational leaders should focus less on policing AI misuse and more on transforming how learning is measured.

What is the purpose of education? The question came into stark relief when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently tried to quietly change the century-old mission of the University of Wisconsin ...