For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker readiness. But let’s be honest, in a world where technology is evolving ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learning technology company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s planned acquisition of K-12 assessment giant NWEA would pair two of the biggest and most influential companies in the K-12 marketplace. But the ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

Liberty Munson is the Director of Psychometrics at Microsoft and serves as the Vice Chair of the IT Certification Council. In today’s competitive IT labor market, where demonstrated skills are highly ...

In recent years, the rise of AI technologies and the increasing pressures placed on students have made academic dishonesty a growing concern. Students, especially in the middle and high school years, ...