William R. Penuel is a professor of learning sciences and human development in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. His current research examines conditions needed to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly reshaping education worldwide. While AI tools increasingly support students in ...

Since the pandemic, the urgency of designing and scaling evidence-based products to support learning recovery has become more pronounced. Educational institutions are grappling with unprecedented ...

Students “lost out on about 35% of a normal school year’s worth of learning” when in-person learning stopped during the public health crisis, according to a paper published Monday in the journal ...

Zanaki Primary School is a public primary school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.It received a School Improvement Grant in 2016 financed by the World Bank for its substantially improved student performance ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

A key step in the assessment cycle is gathering and analyzing evidence. Employing the appropriate data collection techniques for assessment is an important step in this process. Faculty and staff are ...

Adult learning theory is a manual for classroom diplomacy, not a map of the mind. Walk into any corporate leadership retreat or faculty development workshop, and you will encounter a familiar set of ...

A teacher finishes a complex explanation and a wave of synchronized nodding ripples through the room. "That makes sense," a student says. Shoulders relax as the tension of a difficult problem ...