In alignment with Northwestern’s commitment to excellent teaching and the personal and intellectual growth of our students, the University is dedicated to the assessment of student learning outcomes ...

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 683, What Use Is Educational Assessment? (MAY 2019), pp. 183-200 (18 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. Classroom ...

Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 30, No. 2, Special Issue on Applying Machine Learning in Science Assessment (APRIL 2021), pp. 239-254 (16 pages) In response to the call for promoting ...

In today’s rapidly changing economy, simply attending school is not enough. To succeed at work and in life, students must develop foundational knowledge and skills through core subjects like language, ...

Six or seven years ago, when we were formalizing our approach to “Assessment for Learning” at the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE), we called it Quality Performance Assessment (QPA), meaning ...

Citation: Briggs, D.C. & Furtak, E. (2018). Learning progressions and embedded assessment. Pre-print from S. Brookhart & J. McMillan (Eds) Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement, NCME Book ...

Pre and post assessments are integral part of the experiential learning journey. They empower students to develop ownership of their own experiences making sense and creating meaning of the outcomes ...

The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on current best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom, ...

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 ...

Assessment has always been an important part of learning but lately, we’ve grown to rely on quizzes and tests that are artificial, expensive, single-purpose, uninformative, and inequitable. Our ...