Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test ...

Assessment is a cornerstone of most modern education systems and yet is it strictly necessary? If it is, what purpose should it serve and, thus, how should it be designed and delivered? In this ...

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 ...

Why Self-Assessment Matters Fostering self-assessment skills not only helps students succeed in your course but also prepares them to approach future challenges with confidence and resilience. By ...

Classroom assessment includes both formative assessment, used to adapt instruction and help students to improve, and summative assessment, used to assign grades. These two forms of assessment must be ...

The University of North Georgia offers an Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces Placement, Preparation and Learning (ALEKS PPL) Assessment to determine readiness for mathematics courses. ALEKS ...

The Dorchester District Two school board meeting discussed its student assessment performance and how it outperformed state ...

The district’s shift to what’s often called proficiency-based grading—but is also referred to as standards- and mastery-based grading—“put the emphasis on learning and not obtaining ...