EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series looking at the ongoing discussion of accountability measures for students and their school districts. How best to determine if students are ...

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 ...

The pandemic has introduced a great deal of hardship into many students’ lives, which may make it difficult for them to learn. Disruptions to students’ mental and emotional health, social systems of ...

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, ...

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

For the past three months, The Chronicle‘s reporters have been writing a series of articles collectively titled Measuring Stick, describing the consequences of a higher-education system that refuses ...

What method would you prefer to use for gathering feedback, and what makes it the best choice for your needs? An online form (e.g., Google Forms or Canvas). A quick in-class poll (e.g., Poll ...

“Why do we have such trouble telling faculty what they are going to do?” said the self-identified administrator, hastening to add that he “still thinks of himself as part of the faculty.” “They are ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...