Both kinds of assessment are important, but one has been ignored in our attempts to improve schools. Now we need a national, state, and local investment in assessment for learning.

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.

By learning to objectively separate their roles as teachers and assessors and making ‘evidence of learning’ the focus of assessments, teachers can use assessment data to mobilize an ...

Designing assessment tasks that will uphold academic integrity can be challenging in a world of artificial intelligence (AI). Amid growing concern in higher education about academic misconduct, ...

Interactive orals shift testing from memorisation to meaningful dialogue, reducing anxiety and building confidence in diverse ...

Teacher involvement in the design, use, and scoring of performance assessments has the potential to powerfully link instruction, assessment, student learning, and teacher professional development.

The objective of every assessment should be to support student learning. The more you know your assessment tools, triangulate data between assessments, and provide students with the support they need ...

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 ...

Systems of assessments that include tasks that ask students to apply their knowledge to solve problems can deepen learning.

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 ...