Commentary Teaching performance assessments strengthen instruction and improve student outcomes; let’s not change that Marquita Grenot-Scheyer Mary Vixie Sandy A kindergarten teacher helps a girl and ...

James H. McMillan and Rachel C. Syrja took readers questions on the use of assessment data to inform instruction and drive student learning.

The Virginia Department of Education is facing calls for greater transparency regarding plans to raise academic benchmarks ...

The Division of Evaluation, Assessment and Education Research within the School of Medicine provides expertise, advising and administrative support related to program evaluation, performance ...

This analysis of testing in schools shows what the current debate gets wrong, and how educators and policymakers can create a future where assessments are a more effective part of the teaching and ...

Performance assessment in education should be part and parcel of reforms to teaching and learning. Much of the criticism of multiple-choice tests is that they encourage teachers to focus on low ...

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative conceptions and plan for instruction that moves students toward more expert-like conceptions. Of course, lessons and ...

Outcomes and Assesment Pratt Institute is dedicated to an outcomes and assessment based education experience. All academic units have program outcomes, and Student Outcome Assessment Plans guide ...

Cambridge University Press & Assessment and the Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SOE) at LUMS have ...

This is the first time the Kansas assessment scale has changed in nearly a decade. The State Board of Education also approved ...