In alignment with Northwestern’s commitment to excellent teaching and the personal and intellectual growth of our students, the University is dedicated to the assessment of student learning outcomes ...

If you’ve ever had the sense that grades didn’t truly reflect what students had learned, formal and informal talks can give ...

I appreciate Laurie Fendrich’s ability to get through a tirade about assessment without using the words “fascist,” “jackboots,” or “Orwellian” (“A Pedagogical Straitjacket,” The Chronicle Review, June ...

Two years ago, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment surveyed provosts about assessment activities on their campuses. Now the institute has gone deeper into the trenches, closer to ...

Assessment has always been an important part of learning but lately, we’ve grown to rely on quizzes and tests that are artificial, expensive, single-purpose, uninformative, and inequitable. Our ...

Michigan Tech's program of Graduate Student Learning Assessment asks the question: Are graduate students learning what we think they are learning? Each graduate program at Michigan Tech has adopted a ...

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 ...

This post is by Adriana Martinez, the Innovation Program Manager at CCSSO. For years, states have taken the lead in exploring how to create better ways to assess students. In 2016, New Hampshire ...

In higher education circles, there is something of a feeding frenzy surrounding the issue of assessment. The federal government, due to release a proposed rating system later this fall, wants ...

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Countries around the world are trying to bridge the gap between what modern day economies and societies expect of their citizens and what their school systems are delivering. Education leaders and ...

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...