In an excellent column, Ray Schroeder, senior fellow for the Association of Leaders in Online and Professional Education, laments the tendency for many instructors to rely on text-specific test banks ...

Higher education faculty have a lot on their plate. Not only are we responsible for teaching and student learning, but we also often engage in research and building a legacy of scholarship, monetary ...

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

Every academic program at the University of Colorado Boulder is required to regularly conduct assessment of student learning outcomes. By engaging in this process academic units may work towards a ...

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 ...