In a climate where there continues to be a movement among parents and educators to opt out of standardized tests, ‘assessment’ has become a dirty word. However, assessment in itself isn’t to blame.
What is Assessment? Why is it important? Assessment is a core component of all teaching, learning and curricular activities. Assessments provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate how deeply ...
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...
"Assessment is the process of gathering information that accurately reflects how well a student is achieving the curriculum expectations in a course. The primary purpose of assessment is to improve ...
Corrected: The headquarters location of Hanover Research was misstated in an earlier version of this Commentary. The firm is located in Washington. A high level of scrutiny and uncertainty surrounds ...
As colleges have faced increasing pressure in recent years to demonstrate that students learn something while enrolled, many have turned to tests of learning outcomes, such as the Collegiate Learning ...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- Ask the many assessment haters in higher education who is most to blame for what they perceive as the fixation on trying to measure student learning outcomes, and they are ...
The NJSLA and NJGPA K-12 state tests will become adaptive this year, meaning tests will "adapt" to each student based on ...
Mohali: Determined to break decades-old culture of rote memorisation, the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), led by ...
Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender bias, and educational practice Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, ...
As the end of the 2020-21 school year approaches, the debate about educational assessments is gaining renewed momentum. While educators and policymakers may hold differing views about how to proceed ...