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, ...

The Committee on Teaching, Learning and Assessment coordinates efforts to improve teaching and learning on campus and mediate between the expectations of accreditation bodies and the norms of faculty.

Classroom assessment includes both formative assessment, used to adapt instruction and help students to improve, and summative assessment, used to assign grades. These two forms of assessment must be ...

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 ...

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 ...

3. Prioritize teaching and learning—not just testing. Performance assessment in education should be part and parcel of reforms to teaching and learning.

Assessments should be integrated into the lesson and the teaching and learning cycle, so that students and teachers reflect on the learning that has taken place before moving on.

The District of Columbia envisions its academic year as a succession of "learning cycles" that blend teaching, coaching, and assessment.