In an attempt to head off a government-ordered system to measure student learning, the two higher-education associations representing the nation’s public colleges are calling on their members to ...

Last December, Peter DeWitt wrote a blog post titled 11 Critical Issues Facing Educators in 2023. Among the items on his list was: A love for learning – I know this sounds hokey, but it’s not. There ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...

Associate Research Fellow at the Centre of the Digital Child, Deakin University There is increasing concern children are less focused in school. This is often blamed on smartphones and social media.

Standardized tests claim to measure student learning, academic achievement, and college readiness. What they actually measure is pattern recognition and the stamina to sit still for three hours and ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that the International Big Picture Learning Credential was developed by Big Picture Learning Australia with the help of researchers from the ...

Here comes another standardized testing season with all the administrator anxiety, teacher turmoil and student disaffection. So much of it that, at least in high schools, those mass assessments do as ...

BOSTON — Teachers and educators are calling for the state to change its MCAS requirement for graduation, arguing that it does not accurately measure student achievement or school performance.

If we allow a single test score number to define a child, an educator or a school, we fail to honor the complexity of learning.

In India, mandatory attendance policies in places of higher education serve as a tool of pedagogical pacification, ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Center for Student Involvement Andrea Bell The Freshman Urban Program is a pre-orientation experience for incoming students, led by Sophomore, Juniors, and Senior Northwestern students, to engage with ...