Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

Discussions of technology strategy and planning for new media at colleges and universities are informed by many factors of higher education culture and the way its core constituents--faculty and ...

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 ...

This post is by Lexi Barrett, senior director of national education policy at Jobs for the Future. Are today’s students terribly over-tested, as many educators and observers argue--or, is it actually ...

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 ...

Assessment is not a monolithic concept. This is not an article about the Beatles, but it is about something that for 40 years has had educators swooning and screaming, and school critics dancing in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A brief lays out two tools that can help today's diverse learners complete their college degrees. Students attend a pharmacology class at Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing. Too ...