Districts have been shifting grading to strictly assess student learning without add-ons such as extra credit.

But the seeming simplicity of these assessment tools masks complicated questions about how to measure student progress and ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

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 ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

(and by association inclusive assessment), is one that according to Hocking, (2010), enables engagement in learning that is meaningful, relevant and accessible to all. Aligned assessment is linked to ...

The PLOAP articulates: RIT academic programs use a common PLOAP template which was developed by the Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee. A program assessment plan should be developed ...

In this article, we propose a new challenge for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: the need to study the disjunction between proposals for assessment “best practice” and assessment in practice ...