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 ...

The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...

The systematic collection, review, and use of information about educational programs and courses undertaken for the purpose of both improving student learning as well as instructional delivery. A ...

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 ...

Given the rapid proliferation and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots across higher education in 2023, online instruction now stands at a crossroads. Faculty can continue teaching and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. And it’s starting to happen right now in classrooms and school buildings in the U.S. and abroad. New research into how assessment ...

A systematic process for gathering and processing information to describe the achievement of students with regard to identified learning outcomes (ILOs, PLOs, CLOs). This information helps program ...

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 ...