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 ...

One of the glaring disadvantages of relying on traditional testing as a method of assessment is that it promotes “teaching to the test”. Assessment experts, therefore, are of the view that tests ...

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.

Block scheduling rethinks curriculum design, lesson-planning, assessment and feedback. Tom Clark outlines how this shift, as well as blended learning resources, helped Victoria University meet ...

Designing assessment tasks that will uphold academic integrity can be challenging in a world of artificial intelligence (AI). Amid growing concern in higher education about academic misconduct, ...

With an aim to improve the learning outcome of school children, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has decided to introduce Lesson-Based Assessment (LBA) from the upcoming academic ...

Bengaluru: The school education department's lesson-based assessment kicked off in govt schools. However, teachers are not amused. Teachers across schools have called the system stifling, promoting ...

There is another way in which assessments can contribute to the development of effective schools, one that has been largely ignored. The evolution of assessment in this country over the past five ...

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are informal feedback gathering techniques to explore what students are or are not learning, how well they are applying it, and how well they respond to ...