Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

RICHARD J. STIGGINS is widely known as an advocate of classroom assessments in the service of student learning. His long career in testing brought him to that vantage point: He holds a doctorate in ...

The University of Wyoming is committed to the continuous improvement of student academic achievement. To ensure student learning is taking place, a wide range of assessment activities are used to ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post is by Justin Wells, Executive Director of Envision Learning Partners. Portfolio assessment has been around for a long time, and the practice appears to be growing. It’s easy to see why. A ...

When creating an assessment plan, there are certain typical components - The document linked here was created by Dr. Marilee Bresciani (Ludvik), and can serve as a worksheet to document the assessment ...

FLEXspace, the Flexible Learning Environments eXchange, has changed over time, starting out in 2013 as a great place to showcase and exemplify learning spaces, then rapidly growing to include a ...

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...