This course will help you effectively assess student performance virtually, including compliance issues, feedback models, online grade book functions, and data analysis. We will discuss why effective ...

Back in March, Inside Higher Ed published a brief news story about two nursing professors at Widener University who were caught on a video that went viral, revealing that to each other they had said ...

New York’s Education Department responded to standardized testing during COVID with restraint, but the Biden administration chose to embrace a doomed mandate, rejecting all requests for waivers ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

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 ...

OUR national educational policies have not paid much attention to improving students’ assessment, which has become a major hurdle to students’ learning. The prevailing traditional assessment in its ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

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 ...