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 ...

All around the country, school has ended for students and summer break is underway. In many schools, students spent the last few weeks of the year sitting for standardized tests to assess the year’s ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Airasian, P. W. ( 1991). Classroom assessment. New York: McGraw Hill. American ...

In today’s evolving educational landscape, effective student assessment goes beyond multiple-choice tests and letter grades. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe ...

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 ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

Grading can be a confusing process for college students, with around one-quarter of learners saying they’ve had at least one professor whose grading they didn’t understand, according to a 2023 Student ...

Real-time feedback: Formative assessments like quick questions or entrance tickets give teachers instant insight into student understanding, allowing lessons to be adjusted on the spot. Measuring ...

Balancing higher standards in education and accommodations for students and learning is a difficult debate for higher education leaders and practitioners. Maintaining challenging courses and ensuring ...

Parents are right to ask whether classroom screens are helping students learn or simply helping tech companies grow.