Ideally, academic assessment should promote long-lasting learning by providing ongoing, actionable feedback on student progress. Traditional assessment structures focused on high-stakes exams (or ...

To the Editor: I appreciate Laurie Fendrich’s ability to get through a tirade about assessment without using the words “fascist,” “jackboots,” or “Orwellian” (“A Pedagogical ...

Portfolio Assessment Building a portfolio to showcase your work experience is another great way to earn credit toward your degree at Loyola Online. Portfolio assessments are conducted by trained ...

The adoption of different methods of testing, such as observational assessments, can provide additional layers of security making them less vulnerable to cheating than written assessments, especially ...

Students like them, too. I conducted a survey of over 1,400 college students in January 2021 and asked, among other things, what types of assessments they find work well in online and remote learning ...

Researchers gave the exam to 11th and 12th graders in the spring of 2013. Deeper-learning schools had a similarly sized advantage on state math exams.

Margo Gottlieb, WIDA co-founder and lead developer, introduces assessment as, for, and of learning in her 2016 book, Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Equity, and expands on the ...