Eric Gilbert’s recent opinion essay, “Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time” (The Chronicle, March 20), grossly misrepresents the assessment of learning. Gilbert states that “the fundamental claim ...

Over the past year, as generative AI tools have become common in college classrooms, much of the conversation has centered on ...

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 ...

Your article about assessment-based learning and degrees is a pathetic example of American ethnocentrism (“Assessment Takes Center Stage in Online Learning,” April 13). The University of London has ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

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 ...

A key to designing informal experiences to support learning is to clearly articulate the goals for a particular experience. That is, what should participants learn through their experience? In this ...

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, ...

Authentic assessment is a type of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of knowledge and skills. Below are some examples of ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

Effective assessment is a cornerstone of teaching and learning, providing educators with valuable insights into student progress, understanding, and achievement. Whether you're teaching a large ...