When we started Envision Schools 13 years ago, we believed then--as we do now--that standardized assessments were necessary but insufficient for determining college and career readiness. It seemed ...

As the scale of formal education has increased, so too has the scale of testing, to the point where it has become a giant business. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on traditional ...

Join University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) for a colloquium with Jade Caines Lee, assistant research professor in the University of Kansas’ Center for Learner ...

Comparative Judgement (CJ) is a robust and innovative approach to educational assessment that prioritises the evaluation of complex work samples through pairwise comparisons. In this method, expert ...

Educational assessment seeks to determine how well students are learning and is an integral part of the quest for improved education. It provides feedback to students, educators, parents, policy ...

Applying knowledge learned in the classroom to the actual care of patients can be a major transition for students in medicine and other health care professions. At Drexel University College of ...

America’s students are not being educated as well these days as they should be. A key reason for this calamity is that we currently use the wrong tests to make our most important educational decisions ...

When we design assessment with transparency, cultural awareness and inclusivity in mind, it becomes a tool for supporting learning rather than measuring it, writes Patrice Seuwou and explains how Many ...

I work with students of all ages and their families, from preschool to college, who are looking for either special education in grade school or accommodations for higher education. I provide ...

Families often have questions about their child's learning, be it Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Autism, ADHD or Gifted. What is keeping your child from achieving more success? Socially, we all want our ...

The Committee on the Foundations of Assessment produced this report, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to review and synthesize advances in the cognitive and measurement ...