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 ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

Locally, the Bainbridge Island, Central Kitsap, North Kitsap and South Kitsap school districts surpassed the 2025 state ...

Measurement invariance is a fundamental property of educational assessments that ensures a given test or scale measures the intended construct consistently across different student groups, cultural ...

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 ...

The long search for an answer to one of higher education’s most pressing questions led here, to the basement of a bistro outside Hartford. What do students really learn in college? To find answers, ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

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 ...

Large-scale assessments can and should support learning. But for that to happen, greater clarity is needed about the underlying constructs, or aspects of thinking and learning, that are the most ...

The University Assessment Steering Committee (UASC), in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, require regular student learning outcomes assessment reports to monitor the ...

Program Goal #1: Project Proposal - Demonstrate the ability to analyze business processes, obtain business requirements, design a system meeting those requirements, and prepare a professional project ...