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.

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, ...

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment noticed that some discussions in higher education were shifting. The sector was starting to focus more on equity when talking ...

Time can provide important insight into student performance. Too often it is used only as a constraint. Over the past four years, discussions about grading and assessment have turned towards questions ...

T he worst-case scenario came into focus almost as soon as ChatGPT was released: Students could feed a professor’s prompt into the chatbot, collect its response, turn it in as their own, and get ...

PLA credits are available within the following program areas. As a first step, be sure to review the PLA program details for your program of interest and then contact the program coordinator to ...