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 ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

If you’ve ever had the sense that grades didn’t truly reflect what students had learned, formal and informal talks can give ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 36, No. 2 (June 2021), pp. 533-550 (18 pages) This study’s aim was to analyse the decisions higher education students make about learning strategies.

Teaching large classes comes with unique challenges, especially when it comes to effective learning assessments. The best learner-centered approaches can feel daunting in a 200-person class—can you ...

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, ...

If a kid is having trouble at school, one of the standard steps is to schedule an assessment for conditions like dyslexia, ADHD or anything else that might require a special approach. But with ...