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 ...

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 ...

For assessments to be used effectively in schools, it’s important for districts and schools to consider what assessments are intended for and how the data gained from the assessments will be applied ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Guidance on bringing together academic expertise, students’ lived experience and GenAI’s creative capacity to co-design ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

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 ...

Washington, DC – Showcasing as part of its new literacy solution at the NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) annual conference, Learning Without Tears’ acclaimed Early ...

Technology and artificial intelligence can vastly improve the types of assessments teachers use to guide students in their learning. Despite the often-negative discussion about testing in schools, ...

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 ...