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 ...

Assessment practices in physical education have evolved considerably over recent decades, moving beyond traditional summative evaluations towards more dynamic and inclusive methods. Current approaches ...

For Olivia Lozano and Gabriela Cardenas, team teachers at the UCLA Lab School in Los Angeles, understanding what each of their students know and can do at any point in time is so integral to their ...

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals.

A common value that undergirds higher education is one of advancing public good. This democratic value is at the core of why universities exist. With democracy often under threat, espousing such ...